Re: [PATCH 11/15] cifs: fix cifs_show_options to show "username=" or "multiuser"

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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:01:18 -0500
> Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In reviewing this patch which changes the show_options on cifs mounts
>> to not display the network username (when multiuser mount flag is
>> turned on) ie not display the username sent on SMB SessionSetup.
>>
>
> 1) with krb5 it's absolutely worthless since we generally manufacture a
> username based on the fsuid for multiuser mounts.

krb5 has principal names ... not much different from usernames

> 2) /proc/mounts is probably the wrong interface for such a thing.
> When/if we are able to make multiuser mounts using non-krb5 auth, then
> the user should be able to get at that info via the keyring...
>
>> 2) In the future can't the domain name differ as well (so should we
>> special case the domain name - or perhaps showing the default domain
>> is fine?)
>>
>
> Maybe. But for now there aren't multiple domains per mount. I think we
> ought to keep this as simple as possible. We can always change that
> later if the need arises.

In the krb5 case you can have different realm names now but I agree
that we use the same default domain name for the mount.

-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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