[Bug 1626749] Re: autofs set $USER to "root" instead of current user

[Robie Basak]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.

Since you say this was due to a change in the kernel version, it sounds
like is a kernel regression rather than a bug in the autofs package, so
reassigning.

** Package changed: autofs (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu)

** Tags added: regression-update

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Title:
  autofs set $USER to "root" instead of current user

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Since last kernel upgrade from 4.4.0-36 to 4.4.0-38 automount failed to mount remote smb FS.
  The configuration file use $USER, $UID and $GID variables :
  i.e. :
  music -fstype=cifs,credentials=/home/$USER/.creds-file,user=$USER,uid=$UID,gid=$GID ://192.168.1.9/music

  When a user account try to mount the FS, automount complain :

   >> error 2 (No such file or directory) opening credential file
  /home/root/.creds-file

  $USER, $UID and $GID are now sets with root variables instead of user
  account variables

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: autofs 5.1.1-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-38.57-generic 4.4.19
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep 22 23:17:27 2016
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/automount
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-07 (228 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: autofs
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-28 (147 days ago)

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