ANNOUNCE: cifs-utils release 5.6 is ready for download

Jeff Layton jlayton at samba.org
Tue Oct 9 18:51:21 MDT 2012


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Time for another cifs-utils release!

Nothing terribly earth shattering here. Some distros (like Fedora) are
moving krb5 credcaches out of /tmp by default. Users of these distros
will definitely want to upgrade.

Highlights:

* Fixes for mounting with '/' in usernames with sec=krb5 

* Support for DIR: type krb5 ccaches

* support for "nofail" option in mount.cifs

webpage:    https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils
tarball:    ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
git:        git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git
gitweb:     http://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git;a=summary

Detailed list of changes since 5.6:

commit 692842e34c1f2fcc84b6b64136f5e28dd7062f46
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Tue Aug 7 11:06:41 2012 -0400

    autoconf: set version to 5.6.1 for interim builds
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 569cfcb3a467dfdf967a36ed6f7896559edab2ba
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Tue Aug 7 11:11:26 2012 -0400

    mount.cifs: deprecate the DOMAIN/username%password username syntax
    
    mount.cifs has in the past allowed users to specify a username using
    the above syntax, which would populate the domain and password fields
    with the different pieces.
    
    Unfortunately, there are cases where it is legit to have a '/' in a
    username. krb5 SPNs generally contain a '/' and we have no clear way
    to distinguish between the two.
    
    I don't see any real value in keeping that syntax allowed. It's no
    easier than specifying "pass=" and "domain=" on the command line. Ditto
    for credential files.
    
    Begin the transition away from that syntax by adding a warning message
    that support for it will be removed in 5.9.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 3a965467611637ca05bcd55460ff69fec6ad8be7
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Tue Aug 7 11:52:15 2012 -0400

    mount.cifs: handle username= differently depending on sec= option
    
    This patch is intended as a temporary workaround for krb5 users that need
    to specify usernames with '/' in them. I intend to remove this hack from
    mount.cifs once the legacy username handling code is removed.
    
    The idea here is to save off the raw username string while we're parsing
    options. If the mount options specify "sec=krb5" or "sec=krb5i" then
    we'll not do the legacy username parsing and will instead just pass in
    the username string as-is.
    
    Obviously, this is a nasty hack and we don't really want to carry this
    in perpetuity, so this can go away once the "legacy" username parsing
    has gone away.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 377898e63a8689b0e8c5c656ce9cfa98223cf74b
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Tue Aug 21 15:18:54 2012 -0400

    cifs-utils: fix up references to getcifsacl and setcifsacl files
    
    When I moved the manpages for this to section 1, I missed some references
    to them. Also, get rid of the unneeded clean-local-aclprogs makefile target.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit d006986221b7f1aad50e894851dc573650b7611c
Author: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 23 11:14:45 2012 -0400

    cifs.upcall: also consider DIR:-type ccaches
    
    If we encounter a subdirectory while scanning a directory for a user's
    ccache, check if it's a "DIR" ccache.  Otherwise, continue as before,
    checking if it's a "FILE" ccache if it looks like a regular file.

commit ca0894e40480a9115c6bad670149b075646ead2c
Author: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 23 11:14:56 2012 -0400

    cifs.upcall: scan /run/user/${UID} for ccaches, too
    
    When scanning for credential caches, check the user's directory under
    /run/user first, then fall back to /tmp as we have previously.  Because
    we now call find_krb5_cc() twice (once for each directory), we move its
    state to be outside of the function.  We also add a substitution
    mechanism to make the process of resolving the location of the user's
    home directory before searching it a bit more explicable.

commit 72bce53289d939c3539b7d3cb957b748a4b1d2ec
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Thu Aug 23 07:46:40 2012 -0400

    cifs.upcall: use strncmp in scandir filter function
    
    We want to require that the filename begins with the correct string,
    not just that it contains it somewhere.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit a0bf123541ec6fd53948f41f17c9dba5d6a43648
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Thu Aug 23 10:18:02 2012 -0400

    mount.cifs: silence compiler warnings about ignoring return code
    
    In this case we explicitly don't care what these functions return, so
    declare a couple of unused variables to catch the results.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 82f93c44343f281ce61f547ff8f9e5f79945cb20
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 12 07:49:44 2012 -0400

    mount.cifs: running out of addresses is not a system error
    
    This patch fixes a minor regression. It used to be that when the mount
    helper would run out of addresses that it would return EX_FAIL to
    userspace. It now returns EX_SYSERR which is incorrect. Reinstate
    the correct error code.
    
    Reported-by: Ales Zelinka <azelinka at redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 67e0f46bfc39d280986f20c7074039151cb188ba
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Tue Sep 25 11:07:08 2012 -0400

    manpage: clarify usage of the username= option
    
    Specifying the username as "user=" can confuse some versions of /bin/mount,
    and cause it to append noexec to the mount string. Also, remove the blurb
    about how cifs.ko will accept abbreviations -- it's just bad practice since
    it leads to these sorts of conflicts.
    
    A wonderful example of this confusion was reported by Stefan here:
    
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860154
    
    Reported-by: Stefan Walter <walteste at inf.ethz.ch>
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 0705ac30ce5e8a7a7d72253d6ad6e79e73a2bfb0
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 8 06:44:49 2012 -0400

    mount.cifs: implement the "nofail" option
    
    The mount(8) manpage lists this as a fs-independent option:
    
        nofail: Do not report errors for this device if it does not exist.
    
    Implement that in mount.cifs by not returning an error if we were unable
    to find a suitable address for the mount attempt.
    
    Reported-by: Peter Trenholme <PTrenholme at gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 8d70e81f0a486fc02ecb0fe38d61fd8f45b89772
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 9 15:21:33 2012 -0400

    autoconf: set version to 5.7
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

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