[Tfug] Running logout scripts as root?

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 03:37:45PM -0700, Christopher Robbins wrote:
>   I've got a logout script that I've written...It connects to a SMB file
>   share (via mount-cifs) and then uses rsync to sync the directories.
>   I'm using this as a way for my users to access their files offsite -
>   they
>   connect to the SSH server, copy files, then when they logout, we sync
>   their file shares to this SSH server.
>   Problem is...one needs to be root to run mount.  Aside from adding
>   my list of users to sudoers or giving everyone access to mount, is
>   there
>   an easy way to have the script executed as root?
>   TIA
>       -  Chris

If the share can be specified in /etc/fstab, you can add the 'user' option
which will allow users to mount/unmount that particular item.  Of course, if
you're mounting something like smb:/users/bob/ (I don't know what the proper
SMB/CIFS mount syntax is) then this may or may not work depending on how many
users you have.


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