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| author | Steve French <smfrench@austin.rr.com> | 2005-04-28 22:41:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-28 22:41:07 -0700 |
| commit | 099a58f681ed951434574ec39bdfe87055bafe73 (patch) | |
| tree | 5015a6eb19cc62766fba00c3183e21e5ad50ae9b /fs/cifs/README | |
| parent | b8643e1b5253a6a51da5574a55a2f9148e255cfd (diff) | |
| download | lwn-099a58f681ed951434574ec39bdfe87055bafe73.tar.gz lwn-099a58f681ed951434574ec39bdfe87055bafe73.zip | |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs/README')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index 93900fc4adaa..48c37a6e9c3f 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -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 |