[clug-talk] mounting question

[Robert Lewko]

actually I just looked on my system here at work.  Mount has no special
permissions.  There maybe security implications for the following suggestion
- be ware.  Try "chown root.admin /bin/mount ; chmod g+s /bin/mount" and add
the user to the admin group.

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Shawn <sgrover at open2space.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to execute the following command in a script:
>
> mount -t cifs -o username=$user,password=$pass //192.168.0.14/c$$MOUNTDIR/remote
>
> I'm getting told that only root can do this.  The local directory in
> question is owned by my user account, and I need to run the script as that
> user - not as root.
>
> I'm trying to remove the need to use sudo and/or enter passwords here to
> help automate things....
>
> Sooo, what am I missing?  Does my user account need to be added to a group
> so it can use mount?
>
> Shawn
>
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