On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:01:18 -0500 > Steve French <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In reviewing this patch which changes the show_options on cifs mounts >> to not display the network username (when multiuser mount flag is >> turned on) ie not display the username sent on SMB SessionSetup. >> > > 1) with krb5 it's absolutely worthless since we generally manufacture a > username based on the fsuid for multiuser mounts.
krb5 has principal names ... not much different from usernames > 2) /proc/mounts is probably the wrong interface for such a thing. > When/if we are able to make multiuser mounts using non-krb5 auth, then > the user should be able to get at that info via the keyring... > >> 2) In the future can't the domain name differ as well (so should we >> special case the domain name - or perhaps showing the default domain >> is fine?) >> > > Maybe. But for now there aren't multiple domains per mount. I think we > ought to keep this as simple as possible. We can always change that > later if the need arises. In the krb5 case you can have different realm names now but I agree that we use the same default domain name for the mount. -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
