[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] umount.cifs: don't build it by
default
Jeff Layton
jlayton at redhat.com
Tue Jun 30 13:07:17 MDT 2009
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 08:22 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Now that the sanity checks for mount.cifs default to matching the
> behavior of /bin/mount, then there is virtually no need for umount.cifs.
> The only exception is when someone enables the loose setuid behavior in
> mount.cifs.
>
> If an unprivileged user mounts a share that isn't in /etc/fstab, then
> /bin/mount won't allow that user to unmount it. In that situation,
> umount.cifs will be necessary to allow unmounting the share.
Pushed to samba master branch.
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Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
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