[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#576868: Bug#576868: samba-common: mount.cifs can't run setuid

Christian PERRIER bubulle at debian.org
Thu Apr 8 05:48:00 UTC 2010


forcemerge 576713 576868
thanks

Quoting Gary Dale (garydale at rogers.com):
> Package: samba-common
> Version: 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: squeeze
> 
> Recently you stopped shipping mount.cifs with setuid. Now I can't
> even set setuid. This means that the user option in fstab doesn't
> work, requiring me to mount the shares as root. This prevents me
> from getting the access rights my account should have. I'm sure you
> have a good reason for dissallowing setuid in mount.cifs, but not
> being able to mount cifs shares normally is painful.

See #576713 as well as the wishlist bug to package newly published
cifs-utils 4.2


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