[Bug 48997] Re: argument "credentials=..." doesn't work any more in fstab

[dah bien-hwa]

Hm now got this "bug" on a 12.04. Why is CIFS saying it doesn't find a
username, when in fact it doesn't find needed binaries? In my opinion,
the log output is wrong, so there is a bug there (although it is a minor
one).

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Title:
  argument "credentials=..." doesn't work any more in fstab

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mount

  Hi,

  I just converted my Breezy machine into a "dapper". Unfortunately I'm
  not able to use my old fstab as it was for mounting windows shares. In
  Breezy it was possible to put the account data of a windows share in a
  file (e.g. "accdata" which can be kept save) with the content

  username=<username>
  password=<password>

  the entry of my fstab looks like this:

  //Server/Share     /mnt/Winshare       cifs
  iocharset=utf8,user,credentials=/path/to/accdata,uid=imexil,gid=imexil,auto
  0 0

  This worked fine in breezy. However in Dapper it won't and I have to
  provide the username and password in clear text in the fstab like
  this:

  //Server/Share     /mnt/Winshare       cifs
  iocharset=utf8,user,username=<username>,password=<password>,uid=imexil,gid=imexil,auto
  0 0

  So I guess this must be a bug of mount.cifs

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