[clug-talk] mounting question

[Robert Lewko]

ahhhh!!! Sorry that won't work!  I need to try things before I make
suggestions.

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Robert Lewko <lewkor at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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