Laurent Duperval wrote:

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> On 12 Sep, David Joham wrote:
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>> I may get flamed by the security people here, but if this is a single
>> user machine, you may want to set your smbmount (and other smb*) files
>> in your /usr/bin directory to suid root. That works for me.
>> 
>> My justification for this is that mounting smb is really no different
>> than mounting any other file system (eg cdrom, floppy) which Mandrake
>> not only lets users do, but does it for them.
>> 
>> Give that a shot and see if it works...
>> 
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> I did that on both smbmnt and smbmount and I still get the same problem.
> What other checks occur?
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> L
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Yep, in 2.2.1a/8.1 they are suid root (try /unsupported/samba-2.2.1a-5mdk).
they were not before.
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