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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-08-04 15:27:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-08-04 15:27:56 -0700
commit849c9caa60642095060e9c21f14687ae9149a6f3 (patch)
treeb33da1ea12f55ad11b547fc723f72b22e1d9cecc /fs/cifs/README
parenta33a052f19a21d727847391c8c1aff3fb221c472 (diff)
parentd098564f3b2b5d555e51bca765a6a9e0dda8f2cd (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: [CIFS] Update readme to reflect forceuid mount parms cifs: Read buffer overflow cifs: show noforceuid/noforcegid mount options (try #2) cifs: reinstate original behavior when uid=/gid= options are specified [CIFS] Updates fs/cifs/CHANGES cifs: fix error handling in mount-time DFS referral chasing code
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diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
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@@ -262,11 +262,11 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
mount.
domain Set the SMB/CIFS workgroup name prepended to the
username during CIFS session establishment
- forceuid Set the default uid for inodes based on the uid
- passed in. For mounts to servers
+ forceuid Set the default uid for inodes to the uid
+ passed in on mount. For mounts to servers
which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such as a
properly configured Samba server, the server provides
- the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be
+ the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be
specified unless the server and clients uid and gid
numbering differ. If the server and client are in the
same domain (e.g. running winbind or nss_ldap) and
@@ -278,11 +278,7 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
of existing files will be the uid (gid) of the person
who executed the mount (root, except when mount.cifs
is configured setuid for user mounts) unless the "uid="
- (gid) mount option is specified. For the uid (gid) of newly
- created files and directories, ie files created since
- the last mount of the server share, the expected uid
- (gid) is cached as long as the inode remains in
- memory on the client. Also note that permission
+ (gid) mount option is specified. Also note that permission
checks (authorization checks) on accesses to a file occur
at the server, but there are cases in which an administrator
may want to restrict at the client as well. For those
@@ -290,12 +286,15 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
(such as Windows), permissions can also be checked at the
client, and a crude form of client side permission checking
can be enabled by specifying file_mode and dir_mode on
- the client. Note that the mount.cifs helper must be
- at version 1.10 or higher to support specifying the uid
- (or gid) in non-numeric form.
- forcegid (similar to above but for the groupid instead of uid)
+ the client. (default)
+ forcegid (similar to above but for the groupid instead of uid) (default)
+ noforceuid Fill in file owner information (uid) by requesting it from
+ the server if possible. With this option, the value given in
+ the uid= option (on mount) will only be used if the server
+ can not support returning uids on inodes.
+ noforcegid (similar to above but for the group owner, gid, instead of uid)
uid Set the default uid for inodes, and indicate to the
- cifs kernel driver which local user mounted . If the server
+ cifs kernel driver which local user mounted. If the server
supports the unix extensions the default uid is
not used to fill in the owner fields of inodes (files)
unless the "forceuid" parameter is specified.