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Bug 435570 - >=net-fs/cifs-utils-5.5-r1 - users cannot mount shares
Summary: >=net-fs/cifs-utils-5.5-r1 - users cannot mount shares
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's SAMBA Team
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Reported: 2012-09-20 02:44 UTC by Chris
Modified: 2015-12-21 17:55 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Chris 2012-09-20 02:44:35 UTC
Upgraded system last night, and could no longer mount cifs shares as a non-root user.  Trying to mount without changing setuid on mount.cifs gives the expected error,"This program is not installed setuid root -  "user" CIFS mounts not supported".  

Setting the setuid bit on mount.cifs, however, does not fix the problem.  Mount attempts as non-root user gives this error: 

Unable to set current process capabilities: Operation not permitted
error 2 (No such file or directory) opening credential file /somedir/smbpwds

The second line of this error is bougs, as there most certainly is a /somedir/smbpwds file.

Running as root, the share mounts as expected.

As a temporary work-around, I downgraded my cifs-utils to 5.4, and it is working again.

My /etc/fstab entry:
//10.199.199.199/gman            /home/gman/win7 cifs   user,_netdev,noperm,uid=gman,noauto,user=gman,dir_mode=0700,file_mode=0700,credentials=/somedir/smbpwds,rsize=130048,wsize=57344 1 2
Comment 1 antu456 2014-10-07 11:32:42 UTC
I also got the error message about "user" CIFS mounts not supported, but the command

# chmod u+s /sbin/mount.cifs

fixed the problem for me. 

# ls -lah /sbin/mount.cifs 
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 39K 22. Jul 17:23 /sbin/mount.cifs

# emerge -pqv cifs-utils
[ebuild   R   ] net-fs/cifs-utils-6.4  USE="acl ads caps caps-ng -creds"
Comment 2 Víctor Ostorga (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-12-21 17:55:27 UTC
Hi guys.

Setuid was dropped from ebuild for security reasons, check CVE-2009-2948, CVE-2011-3585 and CVE-2012-1586.

However you can chmod u+s /sbin/mount.cifs anytime.