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authorSteve French <smfrench@austin.rr.com>2005-04-28 22:41:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-04-28 22:41:07 -0700
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[PATCH] cifs: Missing initialization for largeBuf flag left out of previous changeset
Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Allowing User Mounts
====================
To permit users to mount and unmount over directories they own is possible
with the cifs vfs. A way to enable such mounting is to mark the mount.cifs
-utility as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/mount/cifs). To enable users to
+utility as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/mount.cifs). To enable users to
umount shares they mount requires
1) mount.cifs version 1.4 or later
2) an entry for the share in /etc/fstab indicating that a user may
@@ -97,6 +97,23 @@ mount.cifs with the following flag:
There is a corresponding manual page for cifs mounting in the Samba 3.0 and
later source tree in docs/manpages/mount.cifs.8
+Allowing User Unmounts
+======================
+To permit users to ummount directories that they have user mounted (see above),
+the utility umount.cifs may be used. It may be invoked directly, or if
+umount.cifs is placed in /sbin, umount -i can invoke the cifs umount helper
+(at least for most versions of the umount utility) for umount of cifs
+mounts. As with mount.cifs, to enable user unmounts umount.cifs must be marked
+as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs"). For this utility to succeed
+the target path must be a cifs mount, and the uid of the current user must
+match the uid of the user who mounted the resource.
+
+Also note that the customary way of allowing user mounts and unmounts is
+(instead of using mount.cifs and unmount.cifs as suid) to add a line
+to the file /etc/fstab for each //server/share you wish to mount, but
+this can become unwieldy when potential mount targets include many
+or unpredictable UNC names.
+
Samba Considerations
====================
To get the maximum benefit from the CIFS VFS, we recommend using a server that