Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (520 mails)

[Scott Courtney <courtney@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 July 2002 05:32 am, Reckhard, Tobias wrote:
> Hi
>
> You wrote:
> > BTW, non-root mounts do not have to have the mount point
> > owned by the user,
> > nor do they have to be in the user's home directory. I do
> > user-level mounts
> > on my system all the time with neither of these constraints.
>
> This is entirely true. However, it seems that (at least some versions of)
> smbmount enforces this strange behaviour. The mount command doesn't care
> about ownership, but smbmount does.. For whatever reason..

Very interesting. I didn't know about this, and I thank you for the
enlightenment. I'am taking the liberty of copying this to the list because
I'll bet I'm not the only one who didn't know that smbmount's security
behavior doesn't exactly mimic a regular mount.

Thanks!

Scott

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