I can confirm that cifs-utils has a dependency on keyutils package. I was doing a CIFS mount over NTLM auth and I ran into the following error code on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS.
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -2 I installed keyutils package and bingo! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734700 Title: mounting CIFS share failure (cifs_mount failed w/return code = -2) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cifs-utils/+bug/1734700/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs