Setting the setuid bit on mount.cifs is discouraged upstream and opens interesting security vulnerabilities:
smbfs (2:3.4.5~dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low * As of this version, the mount.cifs binary is no longer setuid. Upstream has always been increasingly unsupportive of this configuration over time. For instance, in bugs like https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6853, it is clearly mentioned that having it setuid root is discouraged. -- Christian Perrier <bubu...@debian.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:09:00 +0100 Ubuntu will not deviate from upstream or Debian in that respect, so this "bug" won't be fixed. Rather than restoring the missing +s, I suggest you use "sudo" when running mount.cifs. If you need finer-grained control, you can use /etc/sudoers to define a specific group that could run that specific command without having access to the whole thing. ** Bug watch added: Samba Bugzilla #6853 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6853 ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- mount.cifs won't mount shares; set uid bit not set https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563805 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs