[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#603093: cifs-utils: mount.cifs(8) appears to contain an error (or mount.cifs does!)

[Reuben Thomas]

Package: cifs-utils
Version: 2:4.5-2
Severity: minor


The documentation for uid/gid taken together with that for
forceuid/forcegid is misleading: it says that if no uid= option is
given (resp. gid=) then the value defaults to 0 (resp. 0), and that
forceuid= (resp. forcegid=) always forces the value of the uid= (resp.
gid=) option.

However, this is not quite true: if no uid= (resp. gid=) option is
given, then forceuid (resp. forcegid) has no effect.

It would seem to me that the best fix for this is to fix the
implementation, as the documentation sounds quite sensible, but I
guess this is less likely. To fix the documentation, it should be
noted for forceuid (resp. forcegid) that an explicit uid= (resp. gid=)
option is required.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers maverick-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-proposed'), (500, 'maverick-backports'), (500, 'maverick')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cifs-utils depends on:
ii  libc6              2.12.1-0ubuntu9       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libkeyutils1       1.4-1                 Linux Key Management Utilities (li
ii  libkrb5-3          1.8.1+dfsg-5ubuntu0.1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libtalloc2         2.0.1-1               hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  samba-common       2:3.5.4~dfsg-1ubuntu8 common files used by both the Samb

cifs-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cifs-utils suggests:
ii  smbclient          2:3.5.4~dfsg-1ubuntu8 command-line SMB/CIFS clients for 

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