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I have the following entry in fstab

//pooh/backup   /bak/pooh/mnt   smbfs   
ro,user,noauto,uid=backup,credentials=/etc/smbfs/backup 0       0

(The above is all one line)

I have a cron job that runs as user backup and attempts to mount //pooh/backup 
do the backup and then unmount it again.  It used to work, but recently I 
have been finding that the job has left the file share mounted.  I checked 
manually, and sure enough - as user backup I can mount the file but not 
umount it.

The man pages say that if I have the "user" option it should allow a user to 
mount it and to unmount it, and that it writes the user name in /etc/mtab.  I 
checked and no user is in the file.  Indeed - checking though various 
permissions, /etc/mtab is only writeable by root, /bin/mount appears to have 
a setuid bit set, but /sbin/mount.smbfs is a symlink to /usr/bin/smbmount 
which does not have the set uid bit set.

Is this a bug? in what ? (I am running sarge)

I can get round the problem by changing "user" to "users" in the /etc/fstab 
line

Due to strange internet routing problems I can't get to bugs.debian.org at the 
moment to search for a bug, so I haven't submitted any bug report.  Should I?
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Alan Chandler
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