Fix CIFS mount error(79) caused by missing keyutils package

Errno 79 is ELIBACC ("Can not access a needed shared library"), not
ENOKEY as previously assumed — mount.cifs prints glibc's literal
strerror() text for it. It recurred with valid, correctly-captured
credentials because the real cause was never authentication: cifs-utils
hard-depends on the libkeyutils1 library but only Recommends the
keyutils package itself, which ships /sbin/request-key and the
/etc/request-key.d/*.conf handlers the kernel's upcall path invokes.
Minimal cloud VPS images commonly disable install-recommends, so
`apt-get install cifs-utils` alone silently skips it and every mount —
guest or fully credentialed — fails identically.

Install keyutils explicitly wherever cifs-utils is installed:
services/base.sh's unconditional package list, vpn-data-mount.sh's
lazy install-on-mount path, and tools/mount-network-drive.sh's SMB
branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H4k6J1qXXyYxhGEgnJaMvn

services/base.sh

@@ -27,14 +27,19 @@ install_base() {
 
     run_cmd apt-get update -y
 
-    # Core utilities present on every install. cifs-utils here (not lazily
+    # Core utilities present on every install. cifs-utils/keyutils here (not
-    # installed on first use, the way tools/mount-network-drive.sh and
+    # lazily installed on first use, the way tools/mount-network-drive.sh and
     # vpn-data-mount.sh's own local-mount step would otherwise do it) so SMB
     # mounts work immediately whenever they're set up later, same reasoning
     # as Docker/Compose being unconditional here instead of on-demand.
+    # keyutils explicitly, not left to cifs-utils' Recommends — some minimal
+    # cloud VPS images disable install-recommends, and without keyutils'
+    # /etc/request-key.d handlers every mount.cifs call (guest or fully
+    # credentialed) fails with "mount error(79): Can not access a needed
+    # shared library" regardless of the password being correct.
     run_cmd apt-get install -y \
         net-tools ncdu git curl wget htop btop tree zip unzip \
-        ca-certificates gnupg jq rsync ssh-import-id cifs-utils \
+        ca-certificates gnupg jq rsync ssh-import-id cifs-utils keyutils \
         || log_warning "Some essential packages failed to install"
 
     # glow — terminal markdown reader (charmbracelet). Not in Ubuntu repos,

services/vpn-data-mount.sh

@@ -43,12 +43,25 @@
 # Mounts use real Samba credentials (a username/password you provide for
 # an account that already exists on the home box), stored locally in a
 # root-only credentials file, same convention tools/mount-network-drive.sh
-# already uses — never guest access. A CIFS guest mount with no explicit
+# already uses — never guest access.
-# security mode can hit "mount error(79): Can not access a needed shared
+#
-# library" — a misleadingly-worded cifs-utils message for errno 79
+# "mount error(79): Can not access a needed shared library" is NOT a
-# (ENOKEY), a known rough edge in the kernel cifs.ko keyring/upcall path
+# credentials problem, guest-vs-authenticated problem, or a mislabeled
-# for anonymous sessions. Credentialed mounts with an explicit sec=ntlmssp
+# ENOKEY — errno 79 is literally ELIBACC, and mount.cifs prints glibc's
-# take the normal NTLMSSP auth path instead and don't hit it.
+# literal strerror() text for it. Confirmed live: this recurred identically
+# with a real Samba account and a verified, correctly-captured password
+# (see the read()/IFS note above — that was a real bug too, just not this
+# one). Root cause is the `keyutils` package being missing on the client
+# (VPS) side: mount.cifs dlopen()s libkeyutils.so.1 at runtime for the
+# upcall path (idmapping/SPNEGO), and while cifs-utils hard-depends on the
+# libkeyutils1 *library*, the keyutils *package* — which ships
+# /sbin/request-key and the /etc/request-key.d/*.conf handler
+# registrations the kernel's upcall actually invokes — is only a Recommends.
+# Plenty of minimal cloud VPS images (unlike a typical desktop/full-server
+# install) turn off APT's install-recommends, so `apt-get install
+# cifs-utils` alone silently skips it and every mount — guest or fully
+# credentialed — fails the same way. Install `keyutils` explicitly instead
+# of relying on it riding along.
 
 # ── Standalone bootstrap ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 if [[ "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" == "${0}" ]]; then
@@ -322,6 +335,10 @@ _vdm_mount_local() {
     local host="$1" share_name="$2" mount_point="$3" label="$4" smb_user="$5" smb_pass="$6"
 
     command -v mount.cifs >/dev/null 2>&1 || apt-get install -y cifs-utils -qq
+    # Explicit, not left to cifs-utils' Recommends — see file header on
+    # errno 79/ELIBACC. dpkg -s (not command -v: keyutils ships no binary
+    # this script calls directly, just the request-key handler files).
+    dpkg -s keyutils >/dev/null 2>&1 || apt-get install -y keyutils -qq
 
     mkdir -p "$mount_point"
 

tools/mount-network-drive.sh

@@ -29,7 +29,14 @@ ACTUAL_GID="$(id -g "$ACTUAL_USER")"
 ensure_packages() {
     local pkgs=()
     case "$1" in
-        smb) command -v mount.cifs &>/dev/null || pkgs+=(cifs-utils) ;;
+        smb)
+            command -v mount.cifs &>/dev/null || pkgs+=(cifs-utils)
+            # keyutils explicitly, not left to cifs-utils' Recommends — on
+            # images with install-recommends disabled, missing keyutils
+            # makes every mount.cifs call fail with "mount error(79): Can
+            # not access a needed shared library" regardless of credentials.
+            dpkg -s keyutils &>/dev/null || pkgs+=(keyutils)
+            ;;
         nfs) command -v mount.nfs  &>/dev/null || pkgs+=(nfs-common)  ;;
     esac
     if [[ ${#pkgs[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then