* As of this version, the mount.cifs binary is no longer setuid due to
upstream concerns about the audit status of this code. As a consequence,
users will no longer be able to run mount.cifs directly to mount shares
unless mount points have been individually configured in /etc/fstab with
the "user" mount option.
Sites that require their users to retain the ability to mount arbitrary
CIFS shares without system-level configuration may want to consider using
the fusesmb package instead.
-- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:07:14 -0800
Seems like this feature was removed from cifs-utils, see <http:// bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 576713> and /usr/share/ doc/cifs- utils/NEWS. Debian. gz:
cifs-utils (2:4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* As of this version, the mount.cifs binary is no longer setuid due to
upstream concerns about the audit status of this code. As a consequence,
users will no longer be able to run mount.cifs directly to mount shares
unless mount points have been individually configured in /etc/fstab with
the "user" mount option.
Sites that require their users to retain the ability to mount arbitrary
CIFS shares without system-level configuration may want to consider using
the fusesmb package instead.
-- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:07:14 -0800