> We have the same situation at work, I have root on my desktop so I'm not > allowed to NFS mount the fileserver.
But it will allow you to "su" to any user id, and mount it. That's the problem. AUTH_DES seems to be the solution, but is not implemented on Linux :-( > Have you looked at shfs, it allows you to mount filesystems using ssh, so > you can just use key authentication so theres no need for passwords. > > http://shfs.sourceforge.net/ > > I've used it on a patched kernel without probems. Looks interesting, but the first line in the installation guide "Warning: This is beta quality code. It was not tested on SMP machine. Backup data before playing with it!" is a bit scary... Maarten