Sean Clarke wrote: > > I have done a brief search on this topic, and have come up with nothing > really useful. So if someone knows where this answer lies for this > version on samba, please let me know. > > I am running Redhat 7.3 along with samba2.2.3a, my problem is my users > need to be able to mount windowsnt shares from within their home > directories on the redhat machine. > > I have chmod +s /usr/bin/smbmount so that they are able to run this. > > But now I am getting this error > > mount.smbfs //mis/abm /home/ian/mis -o > username=XXXX,password=XXXXXXXX,rw > > libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root. > 19764: Connection to mis failed > SMB connection failed > > Is there a way to fix this, I am also taking this as a security > feature??
You must *not* make smbmount setuid root. You may make smbmnt (the helper) setuid root if you wish, but smbmount invokes a lot of Samba code that is known to be unstrustworthy under these circumstances. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
