[linux-cifs-client] Re: setuid and libsmb

[Steve French]

On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 15:24 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 13:41, Steve French wrote:
> > I noticed that libsmb returns an error when mount.smbfs (smbmnt/
> > smbmount) is run setuid.  
> 
> Incorrect - smbmnt does not use libsmb.

You are right, smbmount is the big one that links with smblib, I had
thought (incorrectly) that both smbmount and smbmnt linked smblib,
setting only smbmnt suid (instead of setting it mount.smbfs and/or
smbmount) worked.