[Coco] Amusing set of error messages (can you see whats wrong?)

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Mar 8 10:06:13 EDT 2009


On Sunday 08 March 2009, Willard Goosey wrote:
>skywarp:~$ mount /home/goosey/brawl
>Password:
>smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (501,501)
Who is 501?
>smbmnt failed: 1
>skywarp:~$ which smbmount
>/usr/bin/smbmount
>skywarp:~$ su
Where is the - sign?  You don't get root's environment without it. 
>Password:
>skywarp:/home/goosey# cd /usr/bin
>skywarp:/usr/bin# chmod +s smbmount
>skywarp:/usr/bin# ll smbmount
> 484 -rwsr-sr-x    1 root     bin        489492 Apr  7  2003 smbmount
>skywarp:/usr/bin# exit
>skywarp:~$ mount /home/goosey/brawl
>libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root.
>5817: Connection to brawl failed
>SMB connection failed

This disk is on a different machine where you _were_ user 501?

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Cheers, Gene
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