[linux-cifs-client] mount.cifs + kerberos + pam_mount

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Tue Jan 29 13:44:45 GMT 2008


On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:29:30 +0000 (GMT)
John Hodrien <johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> > I believe all of the relevant kernel patches have now been merged
> > into Linus' tree. mount.cifs just needed minor changes to make this
> > work, but there is an upcall program that was recently added to the
> > client dir of the samba source tree. That program is required for
> > kerberos auth. I'm not sure exactly what release of samba added it,
> > but it should be in anything relatively recent. Distro maintainers
> > will need to add it to their packages however so you'll probably
> > need to build samba from sources in order to use it.
> 
> Just to save confusion on my part...  Is there a line we can draw (say
> 2.6.24-git5) that has all the bits required?
> 

Probably, but I'm not sure what it is right offhand. It's definitely in
2.6.24 and that's now been released.

> What's the upcall program called?
> 

cifs.spnego

> jh
> 


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Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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