samba - Feb 2001 - [Fwd: Re: Mounting samba shares]

Hi Don,
Surely there must be some way around this. Since mounting the share as
root means that any user would then have to su in order to access their
files. There must be some way for a paricular user to have a share
mounted using their user name so they have permission to access the
appropriate files.

"MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)" wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> In fact, smbmount DOES require the executor of that command to be the root
> user.  There is a check in the code to ensure this.
> This is similar to the nfs mount requirement that nfs mounts be made by
> root.  The subsequent access to the files and directories under that mount
> are then governed by the permissions on those files and directories.
> hope this helps,
> Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Jensen [mailto:cjensen@edex.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 17:59
> To: samba@samba.org
> Subject: Mounting samba shares
> 
> Hi,
> I'm trying to mount samba shares onto the file system, but at the
moment
> i only seem to be able to mount them as root. I've tried changing the
> permissions on the mount point and even mounting it on a subdir of my
> home directory but mount just keeps telling me that only root can do
> this. I've put an entry for the mount in /etc/fstab with the user
> option, what have i missed?
> I'm using samba 2.0.7 on RedHat 7, help would be much appreciated.
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Chris Jensen wrote:
> Surely there must be some way around this. Since mounting the share as
> root means that any user would then have to su in order to access their
> files. There must be some way for a paricular user to have a share
> mounted using their user name so they have permission to access the
> appropriate files.
autofs is one option. Root owns the list of what can be mount where. It is
mounted and unmounted automatically when someone accesses it. uid/gid and
permission masks are set as mount options giving the user (an illusion of)
ownership of the files on the share. No suid smbmnt needed.

smbmnt setuid allows any user to mount any smb share on any directory they 
own and have rwx permission on. The manpage says that smbmnt "is meant to 
be", poor wording perhaps. If you need user mounts then you can but if 
you can avoid it then do.

smbmnt does not care about /etc/fstab user options. Maybe it should (more 
standard). The mount_ok() function can be changed to look at the user 
option instead of directory ownership. It still needs setuid however.


And don't make smbmount setuid.

/Urban