[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#571323: [smbfs] missing sticky bit on /sbin/*mount.cifs

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:20:14AM +0100, Baggett Jonas wrote:

> It is actually a temporary mesure until mount.cifs will be fixed to be
> safe when it is setuid

No, it is not.  The "temporary measure" refers to the fact that it is now
*impossible* to run mount.cifs suid-root; even when that is changed,
upstream will still not sanction us *shipping* it this way.

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