Package: cifs-utils Version: 2:4.5-2 Severity: grave Tags: squeeze Justification: renders package unusable
It is the very nature of a network to be highly dynamic. So a user must be able to mount network shares dynamically, i. e. mount with different user IDs (on the target host), mount to different mountpoints (at least beyond his home directory), mount short dated or short termed shares. It is the very nature of /etc/fstab, to be highly static. So any mounting tool used to mount shares from a windows network, which requires static entries in /etc/fstab, which hence requires root rights, is absolutely useless. In former versions of smbfs resp. cifs-utils found in Debian a user was able to dynamically mount windows shares. Since Squeeze, mount.cifs requires static entries in fstab. Now the user must not only be given the right, to manipulate /etc/fstab at his will. It's worse: The Windows password must be entered in clear text into fstab (or at least in a credentials file), it must be written to a file on harddrive. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cifs-utils depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libkeyutils1 1.4-1 Linux Key Management Utilities (li ii libkrb5-3 1.8.3+dfsg-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libtalloc2 2.0.1-1 hierarchical pool based memory all ii samba-common 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3 common files used by both the Samb cifs-utils recommends no packages. Versions of packages cifs-utils suggests: ii smbclient 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3 command-line SMB/CIFS clients for -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
