using version 4.4.0-38-generic, x86_64 on MacMini

[Gerald Lovel]

Confirmation of bug #1626749 regarding $USER token substitution problem in autofs. Even when the $USER token was replaced with a valid username for the share, autofs was unable to mount shares using certificates, nor could sshfs. These programs reverted to password authentication instead. The reason for mounting with certificates instead of passwords is security, of course.

[kalyp (kalyp)]

I don't think this is a duplicate bug, or rather, I am not affected by this one and am by #1626749. On my side, replacing $USER by my username works. I have 2 identical lines in autofs, one with credentials=/home/$USER/.credentials (fails as it looks for /home/root/.credentials), one with credentials=/home/myusername/.credentials (works just fine for me).

[Gerald Lovel (glovel)]

This is my experience as well. I believe this was part of the original bug,
but the important issue is that because $USER does not work, automated file
system attaches using user credentials do not work. (Or to make them work,
we would have to have an autofs.conf file with special-case logic for every
possible user, contrary to the point of the utility.)

Or, we could drop the user certificate logins and use root login with share
passwords, defeating the security of the shares. Therefore the bug is a
security issue, and the priority should be upped accordingly.

Gerald
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:49 AM, kalyp <email address hidden> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1626749 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626749
>
> I don't think this is a duplicate bug, or rather, I am not affected by
> this one and am by #1626749. On my side, replacing $USER by my username
> works. I have 2 identical lines in autofs, one with
> credentials=/home/$USER/.credentials (fails as it looks for
> /home/root/.credentials), one with
> credentials=/home/myusername/.credentials (works just fine for me).
>
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> Title:
> using version 4.4.0-38-generic, x86_64 on MacMini
>
> Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Confirmation of bug #1626749 regarding $USER token substitution
> problem in autofs. Even when the $USER token was replaced with a valid
> username for the share, autofs was unable to mount shares using
> certificates, nor could sshfs. These programs reverted to password
> authentication instead. The reason for mounting with certificates
> instead of passwords is security, of course.
>
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