[linux-cifs-client] CIFS Mount and the old PCFS Mount (was re: CIFS
Unix Extensions UIDs and client permission)
David Collier-Brown
davec-b at rogers.com
Sat Jul 17 18:46:55 GMT 2004
Steve French wrote:
> 2) what should the default uid/gid be? Now the default uid/gid is taken
> from the "uid=" and "gid=" mount parms if they are passed on mount, and
> if they are not passed the default uid/gid reported on lookup by the
> client is current->uid and current->gid
...
> The intent of MultiuserMount is eventually to allow the
> client to be configured to do additional SMB session setups for each
> distinct UID who attempt to access the mount so we can pass the right
> SMB uid/tid on path based requests to the server.
> Also - jra had talked about an interesting idea for a pipe based helper
> mechanism that might assist with the uid translation.
I'm not sure the semantics of the CIFS mount are all that
sane... back in the days of PC-NFS, a client requested a mount,
usually of their home directory, by first authenticating the
individual using a PCNFS-specific mechanism to do so on the
server, and only then made a mount for that user.
This is more like the multi-user mount being discussed, in which
case the checking is less problematic...
Right now on Linux I use the user-may-mount permissions in my fstab
and a mount line per user, so that the user is non-ambiguous. This
made for a rather busy fstab on the departmental loaner laptop (:-))
--dave
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