[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#423971: cifs: -o guest yields root login

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> [2007.05.15.1851 +0200]:
> What about using the option as suggested in the man page:
> 
> mount -t cifs -o user=guest //wall/pub /mnt --verbose
> 
> Actually, mount.cifs could maybe give a more explicit warning about
> "-o user" not being supported.

-o guest has a special meaning, it's not the same as user=guest. And
as I noted in the bug report, it works fine if I properly
authenticate. -o guest should perform an anonymous login and that
does not work.

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