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and subject line Re: /sbin/mount.cifs: mount.cifs ask for a password also when
"guest ok = yes"
has caused the Debian Bug report #858343,
regarding /sbin/mount.cifs: mount.cifs ask for a password also when "guest ok =
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Package: cifs-utils
Version: 2:6.7-1
Severity: minor
File: /sbin/mount.cifs
Dear Maintainer,
I know the relevant section of the manpage of mount.cifs where the option
"password" is explaint.
mount.cifs will always ask for a password (if it is not given implicite with
environment variable or credential file) also when guest users are allowed on
the samba share. This makes no sense and I see no good reason for that
behaviour.
Describing that buggy behaviour in the manpage doesn't make it better. It is a
bug.
kind
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.10.4-towo.1-siduction-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cifs-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-9
ii libcap-ng0 0.7.7-3+b1
ii libkeyutils1 1.5.9-9
ii libkrb5-3 1.15-1
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.5
ii libtalloc2 2.1.8-1
ii libwbclient0 2:4.5.6+dfsg-1
ii samba-common 2:4.5.6+dfsg-1
cifs-utils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages cifs-utils suggests:
ii keyutils 1.5.9-9
ii smbclient 2:4.5.6+dfsg-1
pn winbind <none>
-- no debconf information
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:58:56 +0100 Christian Buhtz <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Package: cifs-utils
> Version: 2:6.7-1
> Severity: minor
> File: /sbin/mount.cifs
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I know the relevant section of the manpage of mount.cifs where the
> option "password" is explaint.
>
> mount.cifs will always ask for a password (if it is not given
> implicite with environment variable or credential file) also when
> guest users are allowed on the samba share. This makes no sense and I
> see no good reason for that behaviour.
>
> Describing that buggy behaviour in the manpage doesn't make it
> better. It is a bug.
I disagree. If you want to mount a guest share, there's "guest"
mount.cifs mount option.
What mount.cifs does is to ask for all parameters first, and do
the connect next, - it performs only one connect to the remote
server, being ready to provide all necessary info. Trying to
do this the other way 'roind is prone to races.
Thanks,
/mjt
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