On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 03:20 -0600, Zac Slade wrote: > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 00:56, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm having some issues with enabling programs to be suid root. Stuffs > > like /bin/mount /usr/bin/mount.cifs is already in mode 47xx and I still > > get errors that I have no permissions to execute it (to mount)
> If the mount point is not specified in /etc/fstab then only root can do the > mount. If it's in /etc/fstab it needs the option users to allow this. There > are exceptions, like when HAL manages the mount for you. Okay. I hope this applies to /bin/mount only and not some other programs. (see more below) > > > (I'm troubleshooting another program but using mount as an example as > > the error symptom is the same) > What is the other program? What is the real issue? Mount is sort of special. The other program is called "truecrypt - www.truecrypt.org) which happens to be a "cross platform" cryptological container which works in Windows (fully) and Linux (partially) I'm using fuse and encfs natively under linux but looking for something cross platform and found truecrypt. It works as advertised in Windows, but in Linux, it's odd. it's installed "4755 root:root truecrypt" but I won't be able to access it any other way than either as root or using sudo. $truecrypt -vl Admin priv needed $sudo truecrypt -vl ....[data]... This program is _very_ lacking in Linux. It works but, it's _very_ lacking. Anyone has any other recommendation? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
