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author | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2009-08-04 03:53:28 +0000 |
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committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2009-08-04 03:53:28 +0000 |
commit | d098564f3b2b5d555e51bca765a6a9e0dda8f2cd (patch) | |
tree | 4408cca53ee3a1c024514d1dd06cedd58bc5af48 /fs | |
parent | 24e2fb615fd6b624c320cec9ea9d91a75dad902e (diff) | |
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[CIFS] Update readme to reflect forceuid mount parms
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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-rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/CHANGES | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/README | 25 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES index 651cefd..e85b1e4 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES +++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Version 1.60 ------------- Fix memory leak in reconnect. Fix oops in DFS mount error path. Set s_maxbytes to smaller (the max that vfs can handle) so that -sendfile will now work over cifs mounts again. +sendfile will now work over cifs mounts again. Add noforcegid +and noforceuid mount parameters. Version 1.59 ------------ diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index ad92921..79c1a93 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -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. |