[Bug 1216968] Re: mount.cifs does not honor 'users' fstab option

[dino99]

That version is no more supported; and backport is not expected as its
not a 'security' problem

** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  mount.cifs does not honor 'users' fstab option

Status in samba package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I am attempting to allow a roaming client to manually mount as a user
  a samba share. but unfortunately mount.cifs (and mount.smbfs) does not
  honor the option in fstab.

  /etc/fstab:
  //stor.lan/storage	/mnt/stor.lan	cifs	users,noauto,guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8	0	0

  the users option is supposed to allow manual mounting of filesystems
  by the users themselves.

  The share in this case is not required to be permanently mounted but on demand (done by the user via a shortcut).
  No sudo is not acceptable (at least in our environment)
  Yes i am aware of intr and bg options but this is not feasible with our setup.

  mount.cifs/mount.smbfs should honor the users option in fstab (or the
  handler invoking it should)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: smbfs 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-50.112-generic 2.6.32.61+drm33.26
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-50-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Architecture: amd64
  CIFSMounts: Error: command ['mount', '|', 'grep', 'cifs'] failed with exit code 1: mount: only root can do that
  Date: Mon Aug 26 18:08:59 2013
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LC_TIME=bg_BG.utf8
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SambaClientRegression: No
  SourcePackage: samba

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