Re: vfs.usermount not working anymore on SMB shares?

From: Kirill Pisman <kpisman_at_sw-soft.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:40:49 +0700
> $ mount_smbfs //LESHA_at_ROUTER/USB /home/lesha/samba
> mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (default:tolower): syserr = 
> Operation not permitted
> $ sysctl vfs.usermount
> vfs.usermount: 1
> 
> 
> Any ideas?

Make mount not try to modify kernel structures. Make some defaults setup
for smbfs with root priviligies (mount something before mounting that
share). Or make the same with sudo.

PS I don't think that usermount is something really useful, it looks
much more like one big security hole.

-- 
I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded
pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated".  -- Ken Thompson

Received on Mon Jun 21 2004 - 03:40:55 UTC

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