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| author |   Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2006-10-30 21:46:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2006-10-30 21:46:13 +0000 |
| commit | 4b952a9b0877dbe8f0f69b2747abe79e3bbd2865 (patch) | |
| tree | 63d933c2d6e4694da7f81d173f75a679a5874d15 /fs | |
| parent | [CIFS] Fix readdir breakage when blocksize set too small (diff) | |
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[CIFS] Allow null user connections
Some servers are configured to only allow null user mounts for
guest access. Allow nul user (anonymous) mounts e.g.
mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt -o username=
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/CHANGES | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/connect.c | 7 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES index 1eb9a2ec0a3b..50afab81a59b 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES +++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ Version 1.46 ------------ Support deep tree mounts. Better support OS/2, Win9x (DOS) time stamps. +Allow null user to be specified on mount ("username="). Do not return +EINVAL on readdir when filldir fails due to overwritten blocksize +(fixes FC problem) Version 1.45 ------------ diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 4093d5332930..71f77914ce93 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -822,10 +822,13 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(char *options, const char *devname,struct smb_vol *vol) } else if (strnicmp(data, "nouser_xattr",12) == 0) { vol->no_xattr = 1; } else if (strnicmp(data, "user", 4) == 0) { - if (!value || !*value) { + if (!value) { printk(KERN_WARNING "CIFS: invalid or missing username\n"); return 1; /* needs_arg; */ + } else if(!*value) { + /* null user, ie anonymous, authentication */ + vol->nullauth = 1; } if (strnlen(value, 200) < 200) { vol->username = value; @@ -1642,6 +1645,8 @@ cifs_mount(struct super_block *sb, struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, /* BB fixme parse for domain name here */ cFYI(1, ("Username: %s ", volume_info.username)); + } else if (volume_info.nullauth) { + cFYI(1,("null user")); } else { cifserror("No username specified"); /* In userspace mount helper we can get user name from alternate |