grant root privileges to ordinary user

Linux and Unix-Like Linux
1

Hi,
Is it possible to grant root privileges to an ordinary user?
Other than 'sudo', is there some way under Users/Groups configuration?
I want ordinary user to be able to mount, umount and use command mt.
/Brendan

2

This is not a great idea - do you want smbmount or mount?
This makes the smbmount be setuid - it runs as the root user.

ln -s /usr/bin/smbmnt /bin/smbmnt
chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt

This would let users mount (& unmount if you setuid the the other file-smbunmount) Windows SMB mounted filesystems. Which is possibly the only valid mount/unmount you would want users doing. Otherwise they could trash your system. setuid on anything like mount is both a security risk and an open can of worms, waiting to crawl out.

3

u can use the RBAC concept for ur idea.
create a role
create a user
modify the role to profile
modify the role to user
login as localuser
execute the command

4

if its only to "mount" and "umount" then you can use the "users" option for the mount point in /etc/fstab

5

From man mount :

Regards
-AJ