[CS-FSLUG] sudo, alternatives, configurators

[Tim Young]

Hi,
You can try looking at
http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/
or automount (autofs).

Both of these are capable of mounting user-level shares, I believe.

    - Tim Young

Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
>
>>> I thoroughly agree.  Linc, do you know of a good GUI sudo configurator?
>>> sudo is the best permissions-override system I know of (although, come
>>> to think of it, there are at least two or three more in the Ubuntu
>>> repository I have not tried!  Hmmm), but its configuration complexity
>>> drives me batty.
>>>
>>> J.E.B.
>>
>> Alas, no.  However, it's probably not as hard configuring sudo as you 
>> may think.  Most times, there are good examples already there that 
>> you can copy, and many times you can just uncomment an example and 
>> make sure your user is part of that group.  But really, just put this 
>> in the end of that file:
>>
>> yourloginname ALL=(ALL) ALL
>>
>> and that will let you use sudo to do whatever you need to do.
>>
> That line I have used before -- and for the current basic home 
> desktop, I think it is quite sufficient.  It works well, because 
> anything can be done, with the user's own password.
>
> But the instant we extend to what really should be "intermediate" (not 
> advanced) usage -- mounting shares located on either an SMB NAS or 
> Windows PC, _mounting them automatically at login_ -- that simple sudo 
> doesn't work, and I don't have anything really good which does.  I 
> spent an hour or two a while back figuring out how to get 'sudo' to do 
> this, but it was such a pain in the neck, and I couldn't be sure I 
> wasn't opening huge security holes...:-(.
> I wish one of the 'fuse' SMB filesystems would work reliably with XP 
> Home; if it would, the problem would be solved nicely.  But I wrestled 
> with that for hours a while back, and won't do it again unless 
> informed outside input tells me it's easy :-)
>
> I have even looked into NFS on XP Home (Cygwin does it supposedly, I'm 
> not so sure having tried it) and other wildcards (OpenAFS?) as ways to 
> work around Microsoft's non-self-compliant XP Home SMB, but thus far, 
> nothing has worked well.  I have thought of putting XP Pro on my 
> wife's PC and using documented methods of setting up a Linux-based 
> Win32 domain, but this would be a very complex solution for us, and 
> would not help anyone else.
>
> Do you have a simple way to have SMB NAS or XP Home shares mount 
> automatically at login?
> J.E.B.
>
>
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