Summary: | net-fs/samba-server-3.3.7 mount.cifs doesn't work as normal user | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | erzapito <erzapito> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo's SAMBA Team <samba> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | erzapito, tdalman |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
erzapito
2009-09-03 21:28:56 UTC
I clearly remember making mount.cifs suid after each samba upgrade. I think it is not meant to be suid by default because of associated risks (not sure of the exact risks though ;)). It would be convenient though to add a USE flag that makes mount.cifs suid automatically. Is there any resolution to this bug ? I just happened to hit this bug today, although I had had no problems before ... Now if you set suid on mount.cifs, it will refuse to work saying: "This mount.cifs program has been built with the ability to run as a setuid root program disabled. mount.cifs has not been audited for security holes. Therefore the Samba team does not recommend installing it as a setuid root program" Of course, user mounts are exactly what most desktop users would like to do with samba-client, right? We need a use flag that installs the patch that's been bouncing around the gentoo forums, or something like it. Please? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 315445 *** |