Quoting Volker Lendecke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:00:36AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > In short, we (Ubuntu and Debian maintainers) are dropping support for > > smbfs. This code caused many regressions in recent security fixes as > > it is essntially unmaintained in the samba code. > > To make it even clearer -- would anybody mind if we removed > the smbfs helpers from Samba 3.2?
Maybe provide a wrapper script as mount.smbfs ? Steve Langasek wrote one when we (Debian dudes) decided to drop support from smbfs recently. At least considering to distribute it (or a derived work) as part of the samba distribution could help samba users to switch from smbfs to cifs?
#!/bin/bash # Debian mount.smbfs compatibility wrapper # Copyright 2007, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. See the # file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL or <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt>. # This script accepts all documented mount options for mount.smbfs, # passing through those that are also recognized by mount.cifs, # converting those that are not recognized but map to available cifs # options, and warning about the use of options for which no equivalent # exists. # known bugs: quoted spaces in arguments are not passed intact set -e # reverse the order of username and password in a "username" parameter, # taking care to leave any "%password" bit intact reverse_username_workgroup() { local workgroup password username username="$1" case "$username" in *%*) password="${username#*%}" username="${username%%%*}" ;; *) ;; esac case "$username" in */*) workgroup="${username#*/}" username="${username%%/*}" ;; *) ;; esac if [ -n "$workgroup" ]; then username="$workgroup\\$username" fi if [ -n "$password" ]; then username="$username%$password" fi echo "$username" } # parse out the mount options that have been specified using -o, and if # necessary, convert them for use by mount.cifs parse_mount_options () { local OLD_IFS IFS options option username OLD_IFS="$IFS" IFS="," options="" workgroup="" password="" for option in $@; do case "$option" in sockopt=* | scope=* | codepage=* | ttl=* | debug=*) echo "Warning: ignoring deprecated smbfs option '$option'" >&2 ;; krb) options="$options${options:+,}sec=krb5" ;; guest) echo "Warning: mapping 'guest' to 'guest,sec=none'" >&2 options="$options${options:+,}guest,sec=none" ;; # username and workgroup are reversed in username= arguments, # so need to be parsed out username=*/*) IFS="$OLD_IFS" username="${option#username=}" username="$(reverse_username_workgroup "$username")" IFS="," options="$options${options:+,}username=$username" ;; *) options="$options${options:+,}$option" ;; esac done IFS="$OLD_IFS" echo $options } args=() while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do case "$1" in -o*) arg=${1#-o} shift if [ -z "$arg" ]; then arg=$1 shift fi arg="$(parse_mount_options "$arg")" if [ -n "$arg" ]; then args=("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "-o" "$arg") fi ;; *) args=("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "$1") shift ;; esac done USER="$(reverse_username_workgroup "$USER")" exec /sbin/mount.cifs "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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