[Samba] how to mount shares as a user without mount.cifs setuid

[Gary Dale]

Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Gary Dale (garydale at rogers.com):
>
>   
>> Now perhaps I'm missing something, but I have no trouble with users
>> mounting nfs shares. The idea that users can't mount cifs shares
>> strikes me as odd and an unnecessary impediment.
>>     
>
> How about turning the binary we provide in Debian to setuid on the
> systems where you want it to be this way, by using
> dpkg-statoverride(8)?
>   
Actually, I was just responding to Nico's assertion that disabling 
setuid is a seatbelt. The idea that mounting shares should be restricted 
to root is, imho, a cure that is worse than the disease.  :)