Public bug reported:
My FSTAB so far had this entry
//10.7.0.231/documents /mnt/nas/documents cifs
user,noauto,user=paelzer,vers=3.0 0 0
I found after a reboot (to free up of the crashes above) that I need to change
this.
I wondered why the logins won't work anymore until I realized it was trying to
authenticate root@<NAS> which is wrong.
So far it had correctly authenticated for user=paelzer.
//10.7.0.231/documents /mnt/nas/documents cifs
user,noauto,username=paelzer,vers=3.0 0 0
man mount.cifs specifies
username=arg|user=arg
specifies the username to connect as. If this is not given, then the
environment variable USER is used.Earlier versions of mount.cifs also
allowed one to specify the username in a user%password or workgroup/user or
workgroup/user%password to allow the password and workgroup to be specified as
part of the username. Support for those alternate username formats is now
deprecated and should no longer be used. Users should use the discrete
password= and domain= to specify those values. While some versions of the cifs
kernel module accept user= as an abbreviation for this option, its use can
confuse the standard mount program into thinking that this is a non-superuser
mount. It is therefore recommended to use the full username= option name.
But it seems for me "user=" no more works.
There was a recent security update for samba (server side), but not CIFS utils.
The only component I'd know of in this chain that has changed was the kernel
part of it.
I tracked this down to the following:
I had so far:
$ grep documents /etc/fstab
//10.7.0.231/documents /mnt/nas/documents cifs
user,noauto,user=paelzer,vers=3.0 0 0
Of these "user" is of fstab that is supposed to allow everybody to mount.
and "user=" is for cifs to set the user.
It turns out that "user" + "user=" is equal to only setting "user" and the
effective login is derived from the current user id.
So a sudo gives me root and without sudo I have my user.
Now that is worth a not in the man page, but not more.
I initially thought the kernel update would be involved and this be part of bug
1787328, but it isn't this is "normal" behavior.
My mind still is on that other bug with the kernel crash, I think for
this aspect here we would open a bug/proposed change to the cifs man
page to clarify? Other suggestions?
** Affects: cifs-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low
Status: Invalid
** Also affects: samba (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** No longer affects: linux (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
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Title:
fstab setting "user" and mount.cifs "user=" conflict and trigger
unexpected behavior
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