[linux-cifs-client] [Patch] Make credentials file parameters consistent with command line parameters

Jeff Layton jlayton at samba.org
Sun Apr 4 07:24:19 MDT 2010


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On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 22:09:45 -0400
Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch makes the mount.cifs credentials file parameters consistent with
> the command line parameters to remove ambiguity between the command line
> parameter format and the credentials file format. That is, it parses for
> both short and long form of the 'username', 'password', and 'domain'
> parameters.  This patch is against the current cifs-utils-4.2.
> 
> I'm also thinking of adding a second patch that allows for parsing a
> "domain/user", "domain%user" and "domain/user%password" formats as allowed
> from the command line.
> 
> Comments are appreciated.

Thanks for the patch. It looks like a reasonable change but the patch
is malformed and doesn't apply. You've also sent it as a MIME encoded
attachment. The ideal way to do this is to commit your patch to a git
tree, use git-format-patch to generate the patch and git-send-email to
send it.

- -- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
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