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Bug 787689 - smb: support "anonymous" user to try anonymous mount first
smb: support "anonymous" user to try anonymous mount first
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: smb backend
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-09-14 17:03 UTC by Michael Terry
Modified: 2018-09-21 18:11 UTC
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Description Michael Terry 2017-09-14 17:03:15 UTC 
The other backends that support anonymous logins (afp and ftp) seem to support passing "anonymous@" as the user part of the URI.

This is useful for smb too, ever since a commit in 2015 that stopped trying an anonymous mount first [1].  Now there's no way to specify an anonymous URI that doesn't cause the GMountOperation dialog to appear.

I hit this because a user of deja-dup reported that every time the automatic scheduled backups would start, it asks them to log in as it mounts the location.  If I could tell them to simply save "smb://anonymous@..." as the location to fix the problem, that would help.

[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gvfs/commit/?id=a0aec329939e198b6faea6b788df7278f6543436 -- actually this commit left a comment in the source that is now outdated: "in case of no username specified, try anonymous login"
Comment 1 Ondrej Holy 2017-09-21 16:15:48 UTC 
Thanks for your bug report. Sounds like that deja-dup uses GIO, so it can try g_mount_operation_set_anonymous first in order to avoid password prompt... but sounds like a good idea to try anonymous login if anonymous user is provided. Are you willing to provide patch for it?
Comment 2 Michael Terry 2017-09-26 17:01:54 UTC 
I could provide a patch, sure.  No eta, but I can look at it.
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-09-21 18:11:24 UTC 
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