Bug#403700: smbfs: mount.cifs fails as normal user

[Gianpaolo Racca]

IMHO if a mount point is defined as user mountable in fstab it should
be user mountable, given that the user has write permission on mount
point.
In any case the error message is highly misleading.

HTH,

   gianpaolo


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Bug#403700: smbfs: mount.cifs fails as normal user

[bugs]

the faulty line here :

if((statbuf.st_uid == getuid())

patch attached

On Tuesday 19 December, 2006 � 06:37:59AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
 Quoting juan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
  Package: smbfs
  Version: 3.0.23d-2+b1
  Severity: normal
  
  
  mount.cifs //dozo/myshare /mnt/ -o guest
  mount error: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not
  installed SUID
  
  $ ls -l /sbin/*cifs
  -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 20440 Dec  4 19:09 /sbin/mount.cifs*
  -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root   Dec  4 19:09 /sbin/umount.cifs*
 
 Well:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp mount.cifs //localhost/public ~/tmp/tmp-samba -o 
 bubulle
 Password:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp   
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls -l /sbin/*cifs
 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 20440 2006-12-04 19:09 /sbin/mount.cifs
 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root   2006-12-04 19:09 /sbin/umount.cifs
 
 
 Probably something else than samba directly
 


*** mount.cifs.c.orig	Tue Dec 19 11:47:33 2006
--- mount.cifs.c	Tue Dec 19 11:47:40 2006
***
*** 815,821 
  	}
  
  	if((getuid() != 0)  (geteuid() == 0)) {
! 		if((statbuf.st_uid == getuid())  (S_IRWXU == (statbuf.st_mode  S_IRWXU))) {
  #ifndef CIFS_ALLOW_USR_SUID
  			/* Do not allow user mounts to control suid flag
  			for mount unless explicitly built that way */
--- 815,821 
  	}
  
  	if((getuid() != 0)  (geteuid() == 0)) {
! 		if((S_IRWXU == (statbuf.st_mode  S_IRWXU))) {
  #ifndef CIFS_ALLOW_USR_SUID
  			/* Do not allow user mounts to control suid flag
  			for mount unless explicitly built that way */

Bug#403700: smbfs: mount.cifs fails as normal user

[juan]

Package: smbfs
Version: 3.0.23d-2+b1
Severity: normal


mount.cifs //dozo/myshare /mnt/ -o guest
mount error: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not
installed SUID

$ ls -l /sbin/*cifs
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 20440 Dec  4 19:09 /sbin/mount.cifs*
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root   Dec  4 19:09 /sbin/umount.cifs*



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages smbfs depends on:
ii  libc62.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1 common error description library
ii  libkrb53 1.4.4-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2 2.1.30-13.2 OpenLDAP libraries
ii  netbase  4.27Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  samba-co 3.0.23d-2+b1Samba common files used by both th

smbfs recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


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Bug#403700: smbfs: mount.cifs fails as normal user

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting juan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: smbfs
 Version: 3.0.23d-2+b1
 Severity: normal
 
 
 mount.cifs //dozo/myshare /mnt/ -o guest
 mount error: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not
 installed SUID
 
 $ ls -l /sbin/*cifs
 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 20440 Dec  4 19:09 /sbin/mount.cifs*
 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root   Dec  4 19:09 /sbin/umount.cifs*

Well:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp mount.cifs //localhost/public ~/tmp/tmp-samba -o 
bubulle
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp   

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls -l /sbin/*cifs
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 20440 2006-12-04 19:09 /sbin/mount.cifs
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root   2006-12-04 19:09 /sbin/umount.cifs


Probably something else than samba directly



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