You should also setuid mount.nfs4 because the mount command calls that if
you are using NFSv4.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 2:47 PM Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > Nathan Dehnel <ncdeh...@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Right, but it's more inconvenient than just clicking the share in thunar
> >> and it mounting. Actually, I can't mount it without doing "sudo" first,
> >> despite having the "user" fstab flag set. This actually might be a
> separate
> >> issue, but I'm not sure.
> >
> > That's a good point.  We should try to make this simpler.  The mount.nfs
> > binary needs to be setuid root to allow unprivileged users to mount NFS
> > file systems.  Unfortunately, the mount command (which we already define
> > as setuid-root) only looked for helpers under /run/current/profile/sbin.
> > This is now fixed in commit def6e2ae4619587114383b3f8fd9f3cf8310b4b9
> > (which had to be made on core-updates).
> >
>
> [...]
>
> > I've sent a patch for review which proposes to add these setuid-root
> binaries for
> > desktop users out-of-the-box on Guix System, which only adds about 4 MiB
> > to the almost 3 GiB closure of the lightweight-desktop.tmpl system [0].
> >
> > As mentioned before, it depends on a change to util-linux that had to be
> > made on the core-updates branch, so it won't be usable until the next
> > core-updates merge.
>
> This patch has now been merged with commit d40c9f6c85.
>
> Closing!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Maxim
>

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