misc/181578: mount_smbfs fails to mount with non-root privileges

[Martin Laabs]

>Number:         181578
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       mount_smbfs fails to mount with non-root privileges
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 27 06:40:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martin Laabs
>Release:        9-STABLE-p5
>Organization:
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>Environment:
FreeBSD laabs.hf.ifn.et.tu-dresden.de 9-STABLE-p5 FreeBSD 9-STABLE-p5 #0: Tue Jul 30 16:02:30 UTC 2013     root at amd64-builder.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
With vfs.usermount=1 you can allow ordinary users to mount a file system. This can be handy for e.g. USB-Sticks and for samba shares since the user might has to type its password (that is not known at system boot time)

However the mount_smbfs tool seems to need root privileges even if the sysctl is set:

[martin at laabs ~]$ mount /home/net-shared-all/
mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (ISO8859-1:tolower): syserr = Operation not permitted

With root privileges the mount call work as expected
>How-To-Repeat:
Try the follwoing as a normal user:
sudo sysctrl vfs.usermount=1
mount_smbfs <SMB-Mountpoint> <Mountpoint you own>


>Fix:


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