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and subject line Re: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#612757: cifs-utils: mount.cifs not
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has caused the Debian Bug report #612757,
regarding cifs-utils: mount.cifs not longer usable
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Package: cifs-utils
Version: 2:4.5-2
Severity: grave
Tags: squeeze
Justification: renders package unusable
It is the very nature of a network to be highly dynamic. So a user must be able
to mount network shares dynamically, i. e. mount with different user IDs (on
the target host), mount to different mountpoints (at least beyond his home
directory), mount short dated or short termed shares.
It is the very nature of /etc/fstab, to be highly static. So any mounting tool
used to mount shares from a windows network, which requires static entries in
/etc/fstab, which hence requires root rights, is absolutely useless.
In former versions of smbfs resp. cifs-utils found in Debian a user was able to
dynamically mount windows shares. Since Squeeze, mount.cifs requires static
entries in fstab.
Now the user must not only be given the right, to manipulate /etc/fstab at his
will. It's worse: The Windows password must be entered in clear text into fstab
(or at least in a credentials file), it must be written to a file on harddrive.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cifs-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libkeyutils1 1.4-1 Linux Key Management Utilities (li
ii libkrb5-3 1.8.3+dfsg-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libtalloc2 2.0.1-1 hierarchical pool based memory all
ii samba-common 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3 common files used by both the Samb
cifs-utils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages cifs-utils suggests:
ii smbclient 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3 command-line SMB/CIFS clients for
-- no debconf information
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Version: 2:4.0-1
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:57:22PM +0100, schorsch wrote:
> Package: cifs-utils
> Version: 2:4.5-2
> Severity: grave
> Tags: squeeze
> Justification: renders package unusable
> It is the very nature of a network to be highly dynamic. So a user must be
> able
> to mount network shares dynamically, i. e. mount with different user IDs (on
> the target host), mount to different mountpoints (at least beyond his home
> directory), mount short dated or short termed shares.
> It is the very nature of /etc/fstab, to be highly static. So any mounting
> tool used to mount shares from a windows network, which requires static
> entries in /etc/fstab, which hence requires root rights, is absolutely
> useless.
> In former versions of smbfs resp. cifs-utils found in Debian a user was able
> to
> dynamically mount windows shares. Since Squeeze, mount.cifs requires static
> entries in fstab.
> Now the user must not only be given the right, to manipulate /etc/fstab at
> his will. It's worse: The Windows password must be entered in clear text
> into fstab (or at least in a credentials file), it must be written to a
> file on harddrive.
Duplicate of bug #572691. If you don't have the right to edit the
/etc/fstab and can't get the admin to do so, you are not meant to be able to
mount filesystems at the kernel level. Instead you should consider the
'fusesmb' alternative mentioned in NEWS.Debian, or try one of the other
libsmbclient implementations available for desktop use.
(And it's not true that you have to stow passwords on the filesystem to use
/etc/fstab-based mounts. mount.cifs will still prompt for a password on
connect if it needs one.)
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