Debian Bug report logs - #576713
cifs-utils: mount.cifs does not respect "user" flag

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Zuelow <james_zuelow@ci.juneau.ak.us>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: cifs-utils: mount.cifs does not respect "user" flag

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:23:59 -0800

Package: cifs-utils
Version: 2:4.1-1
Severity: normal


In the NEWS.Debian.gz file it says:

"As a consequence, users will no longer be able to run 
mount.cifs directly to mount shares unless mount points 
have been individually configured in /etc/fstab with 
the "user" mount option."

I have such mount points configured:

//server.my.domain/sData               /home/jfzuelow/sData      cifs acl,rw,user,noauto,credentials=/home/jfzuelow/.nt/creds 0 0

And yet when I attempt to mount the share:

/sbin/mount.cifs: not installed setuid - "user" CIFS mounts not
supported.jfzuelow@mis-jz-lnx:~$

So "user" mounts are not supported after all?

(And there should probably be a \n in the error message anyway.)

Cheers,

James

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cifs-utils depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.10.2-6          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libkeyutils1           1.3-1             Linux Key Management Utilities (li
ii  libkrb5-3              1.8+dfsg~alpha1-7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libtalloc2             2.0.1-1           hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  samba-common           2:3.4.7~dfsg-1    common files used by both the Samb

cifs-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cifs-utils suggests:
ii  smbclient                 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1 command-line SMB/CIFS clients for 

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 576713@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>

To: samba@lists.samba.org

Cc: 576713@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Samba] how to mount shares as a user without mount.cifs setuid

Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 07:34:55 +0200

Quoting Jeff Layton (jlayton@samba.org):

> It's also worthwhile to note that I've recently re-enabled the ability
> to run mount.cifs as a setuid root program in the latest cifs-utils
> release:
> 
> http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs-utils/
> 
> ...you may want to switch to using that instead if you need the ability
> to use mount.cifs in this way.

cifs-utils 4.2 has yet to be packaged for Debian
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576314).

Will we decide to re-enable setuid? We already have a bug report
asking for this..:-)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576713

Message #17 received at 576713@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Zuelow <James_Zuelow@ci.juneau.ak.us>

To: "'576713@bugs.debian.org'" <576713@bugs.debian.org>

Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:56:04 -0800

Note that I'm not actually asking for setuid to be restored, just pointing out that the documentation says that mount.cifs will respect the "user" flag in /etc/fstab, but at least on my system it does not.

(It could be that the internals of respecting the user flag require setuid -- I admit ignorance of the details)

James 

Message #22 received at 576713-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: 576713-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#576713: fixed in cifs-utils 2:4.5-1

Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 18:02:08 +0000

Source: cifs-utils
Source-Version: 2:4.5-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
cifs-utils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

cifs-utils_4.5-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/c/cifs-utils/cifs-utils_4.5-1.debian.tar.gz
cifs-utils_4.5-1.dsc
  to main/c/cifs-utils/cifs-utils_4.5-1.dsc
cifs-utils_4.5-1_amd64.deb
  to main/c/cifs-utils/cifs-utils_4.5-1_amd64.deb
cifs-utils_4.5.orig.tar.bz2
  to main/c/cifs-utils/cifs-utils_4.5.orig.tar.bz2
smbfs_4.5-1_amd64.deb
  to main/c/cifs-utils/smbfs_4.5-1_amd64.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 576713@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> (supplier of updated cifs-utils package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 03:28:42 -0700
Source: cifs-utils
Binary: cifs-utils smbfs
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 2:4.5-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers <pkg-samba-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Description: 
 cifs-utils - Common Internet File System utilities
 smbfs      - Common Internet File System utilities - compatibility package
Closes: 576314 576713
Changes: 
 cifs-utils (2:4.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Christian Perrier ]
   * New upstream release.  Closes: #576314.
 .
   [ Steve Langasek ]
   * Set mount.cifs suid-root, again supported upstream and required for use
     in user mounts.  Closes: #576713.
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