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@@ -101,12 +101,15 @@ Allowing User Unmounts
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To permit users to ummount directories that they have user mounted (see above),
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the utility umount.cifs may be used. It may be invoked directly, or if
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-umount.cifs is placed in /sbin, umount -i can invoke the cifs umount helper
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+umount.cifs is placed in /sbin, umount can invoke the cifs umount helper
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(at least for most versions of the umount utility) for umount of cifs
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-mounts. As with mount.cifs, to enable user unmounts umount.cifs must be marked
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-as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs"). For this utility to succeed
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-the target path must be a cifs mount, and the uid of the current user must
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-match the uid of the user who mounted the resource.
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+mounts, unless umount is invoked with -i (which will avoid invoking a umount
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+helper). As with mount.cifs, to enable user unmounts umount.cifs must be marked
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+as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs") or equivalent (some distributions
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+allow adding entries to a file to the /etc/permissions file to achieve the
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+equivalent suid effect). For this utility to succeed the target path
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+must be a cifs mount, and the uid of the current user must match the uid
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+of the user who mounted the resource.
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Also note that the customary way of allowing user mounts and unmounts is
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(instead of using mount.cifs and unmount.cifs as suid) to add a line
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@@ -404,6 +407,8 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
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This has no effect if the server does not support
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Unicode on the wire.
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nomapchars Do not translate any of these seven characters (default).
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+ remount remount the share (often used to change from ro to rw mounts
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+ or vice versa)
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The mount.cifs mount helper also accepts a few mount options before -o
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including:
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