[FreeNX-kNX] windows/osx shares fail to mount

[Stefan Bauer]

Am 27.07.2010 10:25, Boris Savelev schrieb:
> 2010/7/27 Toni Asensi Esteve <asmond at orange.es>:
>>>> I could of course set the sticky bit on mount.cifs/mount.smbfs, but i do
>>>> not think
>>>> that that is the right approach.
>>> why not?
>> As they say:
>>        "Setting the setuid bit on mount.cifs is discouraged upstream and opens
>>        interesting security vulnerabilities:
>>
>>        smbfs (2:3.4.5~dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low
>>          * As of this version, the mount.cifs binary is no longer setuid.
>>            Upstream has always been increasingly unsupportive of this
>>            configuration over time. For instance, in bugs like
>>            https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6853, it is clearly
>>            mentioned that having it setuid root is discouraged.
>>         -- Christian Perrier <email address hidden> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:09:00

FYI:

 cifs-utils (2:4.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Christian Perrier ]
   * New upstream release.  Closes: #576314.
 .
   [ Steve Langasek ]
   * Set mount.cifs suid-root, again supported upstream and required
for use in user mounts.  Closes: #576713.


Stefan

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