Add smb3 mount helper
Aurélien Aptel
aaptel at suse.com
Fri Apr 5 09:39:18 UTC 2019
Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> writes:
> We want to encourage use of more secure SMB3, and don't want
> people using cifs and this new helper makes it less confusing:
> "mount -t smb3"
> rather than
> "mount -t cifs"
> Users can still mount the old way, but if they use smb3 mount
> helper (mount.smb3 or "mount -t smb3") it will be less confusing
> and less likely to use older insecure dialects.
I don't think duplicating the source is a good idea. Could we just make
a symlink or hardlink at installation? Alternatively move the common
code to a separate file.
Cheers,
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