[linux-cifs-client] suddenly doesn't work with the username and password in credentials=... in the mount line

[Kin Yip]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the reply.

It does look like that when I take away the carriage return in line of 
password in my "credentials" file,
mounting works !  That's my "work-around" for the time being.

Kin

Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:18:50 -0500
> Kin Yip <kinyip at bnl.gov> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using Scientific Linux 5.3 (~ RedHat Enterprise 5.3).
>>
>> After a reboot today, I probably have switched to a new kernel, "uname 
>> -a" gives :
>>
>> Linux yipkin.c-ad.bnl.gov 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 08:22:26 
>> EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Somehow, the auto-mounting with cifs for the following line in 
>> /etc/fstab doesn't work but it used to work :
>>
>> //c-adweb/data          /mnt/c-adweb            cifs    
>> domain=BNL,credentials=/root/.credentials,gid=kinyip,uid=kinyip 0 0
>>
>> I see error in /var/log/message:
>> Nov  8 13:11:50 yipkin kernel: Status code returned 0xc000006d 
>> NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
>> Nov  8 13:11:50 yipkin kernel:  CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -13
>> Nov  8 13:11:50 yipkin kernel:  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return 
>> code = -13
>>
>> Using the command :
>>    mount -t cifs -o 
>> domain=BNL,credentials=/root/.credentials,gid=500,uid=500  
>> //c-adweb/data /mnt/c-adweb
>>
>> would get me :
>> mount error 13 = Permission denied
>> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>>
>> And I can see the same errors in /var/log/message (or dmesg).
>>
>> If I do "mount -t cifs -o domain=BNL,user=kinyip,gid=500,uid=500  
>> //c-adweb/data /mnt/c-adweb", it would ask me for password and
>> then it'd mount successfully !!
>>
>> In my file /root/.credentials  ("ls" would have : -rw------- 1 root root 
>> 39 Nov  8 13:02 /root/.credentials ), it's like
>> username=kinyip
>> password=$.....
>>
>> My first character of my password is $ and I'm wondering whether this is 
>> creating trouble ????  I've tried "\$...." but it doesn't help.
>>
>> Any idea ???
>>     
>
> Known regression. mount.cifs isn't stripping the trailing "\n" off of
> the password in cred files. We'll be shipping a fixed package for RHEL
> soon.
>
>