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diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index 2bd6fe556f88..bd2343d4c6a6 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -542,10 +542,20 @@ SecurityFlags Flags which control security negotiation and hashing mechanisms (as "must use") on the other hand does not make much sense. Default flags are 0x07007 - (NTLM, NTLMv2 and packet signing allowed). Maximum + (NTLM, NTLMv2 and packet signing allowed). The maximum allowable flags if you want to allow mounts to servers using weaker password hashes is 0x37037 (lanman, - plaintext, ntlm, ntlmv2, signing allowed): + plaintext, ntlm, ntlmv2, signing allowed). Some + SecurityFlags require the corresponding menuconfig + options to be enabled (lanman and plaintext require + CONFIG_CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH for example). Enabling + plaintext authentication currently requires also + enabling lanman authentication in the security flags + because the cifs module only supports sending + laintext passwords using the older lanman dialect + form of the session setup SMB. (e.g. for authentication + using plain text passwords, set the SecurityFlags + to 0x30030): may use packet signing 0x00001 must use packet signing 0x01001 @@ -642,8 +652,30 @@ The statistics for the number of total SMBs and oplock breaks are different in that they represent all for that share, not just those for which the server returned success. -Also note that "cat /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData" will display information about +Also note that "cat /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData" will display information about the active sessions and the shares that are mounted. -Enabling Kerberos (extended security) works when CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL is -on but requires a user space helper (from the Samba project). NTLM and NTLMv2 and -LANMAN support do not require this helper. + +Enabling Kerberos (extended security) works but requires version 1.2 or later +of the helper program cifs.upcall to be present and to be configured in the +/etc/request-key.conf file. The cifs.upcall helper program is from the Samba +project(http://www.samba.org). NTLM and NTLMv2 and LANMAN support do not +require this helper. Note that NTLMv2 security (which does not require the +cifs.upcall helper program), instead of using Kerberos, is sufficient for +some use cases. + +Enabling DFS support (used to access shares transparently in an MS-DFS +global name space) requires that CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL be enabled. In +addition, DFS support for target shares which are specified as UNC +names which begin with host names (rather than IP addresses) requires +a user space helper (such as cifs.upcall) to be present in order to +translate host names to ip address, and the user space helper must also +be configured in the file /etc/request-key.conf + +To use cifs Kerberos and DFS support, the Linux keyutils package should be +installed and something like the following lines should be added to the +/etc/request-key.conf file: + +create cifs.spnego * * /usr/local/sbin/cifs.upcall %k +create dns_resolver * * /usr/local/sbin/cifs.upcall %k + + |
