Changing permissions of Binaries installed by apt

[Matthew Flaschen]

Nils wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm the sysadmin of a small group of people. To mount the fileserver I
> wrote a small script which uses /sbin/mount.cifs from the smbfs
> package. To make the normal users able to mount w/o sudo (and entering
> the passwd every time) I set the permissions of mount.cifs setuid
> (chmod +s $(which mount.cifs)).

I don't think that's really the right way to do that.  You should make
an fstab entry with the option user .  That will allow any user to mount
 it.  See http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

Matthew Flaschen

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