user for init scripts, fc5

[Paul Howarth]

Toby Muhlhofer wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> I was wondering: which user runs the init scripts at boot time in fc5?
> 
> The reason I ask is because I have the following issue. In my 
> /etc/fstab, I have a cifs filesystem, for which I use a credentials 
> file. For security reasons I would like to set permissions/ownership on 
> this file so only root can read it. In fc4, this filesystem would be 
> mounted with no problems. In fc5, I get an error message
> 
> can't open <path-to-file>
> 
> The behavior is the same whether I put a line for the filesystem into 
> /etc/fstab or I put a line
> 
> mount -t cifs <...> -o credentials=<path-to-file>
> 
> into rc.local.
> 
> Either used to work in fc4, neither works in fc5. If I make the 
> credentials file world-readable, it works, but I don't want to do that 
> for security reasons.
> 
> So my guess is, I would need to transfer ownership of the file to 
> whichever user runs the init scripts and let only that user read the file.
> 
> So, which user runs the init scripts?

initscripts run as root. Do your mount commands work if you type them in 
on the command line as root?

FWIW, I mount CIFS filesystems at home just using an entry in /etc/fstab 
and the standard initscripts handle the mounting:

//BADBY/SoftLib /home/paul/smb/softlib cifs 
uid=paul,gid=paul,user,credentials=/home/paul/.smbcredentials 0 0

$ ls -l /home/paul/.smbcredentials
-rw------- 1 paul paul 32 Jun  5  2004 /home/paul/.smbcredentials

Paul.