"Jeff Layton" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:[email protected]...
>
> The Linux cifs client aggressively shares connections to the server,
> and isn't very careful about making sure that the mount options for new
> mounts are considered when matching existing connections to the server.
>
> This is a kernel bug, but not one that's trivial to fix. It's also
> another good reason why it's not prudent to allow unprivileged users to
> mount shares not listed in /etc/fstab.
>
> You'll probably get more response from these sorts of questions on the
> [email protected] mailing list. Fixing this will likely mean
> significant design changes in how CIFS deals with connections to the
> server.
>

This is very interesting, thank you!

Oops, sorry, I missed the linux-cifs-client mailing list: it seems this is 
not mirrored on news.gmane.org.  But I will try that one first next time.

Cheers,
Andy.




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