ANNOUNCE: cifs-utils release 5.7 is ready for download

Tue Oct 9 18:55:14 MDT 2012

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On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 20:51:21 -0400
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org> wrote:

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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>

Sigh...

Obviously the Subject of the above message should have read 5.7...
- -- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
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ANNOUNCE: cifs-utils release *5.7* is ready for download

ANNOUNCE: cifs-utils release 5.7 is ready for download