Re: [SLUG] LinNeighborhood with Joe User: "smbmount not found" -Why?

From: Jeffrey (jdavis70@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 13:03:38 EDT


Matthew Moen wrote:

> Thus spake Jeffrey on the 09 day of the 10 month in the year 2002:
> > "Ian C. Blenke" wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 15:20, Jeffrey wrote:
> > > > I ran into the same problem on mine. The error message on my box
> > > > indicated that I should SUID mount, umount, smbmount, and if I recall
> > > > correctly also smbumount. After doing that it worked fine as a regular
> > > > user.
> > > Gah! The security implications are mind blowing.
> > True, but my machine is on a home network and behind two firewalls, so that
> > was not a real concern for me. :)
>
> Ahh...You must be a student of the "crunchy on the outside with a
> sicky-sweet chewy center" school of insecurity. :-)
>
> --
> Matthew Moen

Not really...just overly paranoid from years of Micro$oft experience :-)
Jeff



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