On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 13:14:32 -0500 Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patchset is a cleanup and overhaul of the cifscreds utility that > lives in the cifs-utils tree today. Igor Druzhinin did a wonderful job > on this when he did the original code a couple of years ago, but I did a > rather poor job at the time of communicating what we actually need for > this tool to do. Mea culpa... > > This patch is a third pass at morphing it into a tool that's more like > what we need. I believe with this, I'll be able to roll some kernel > patches that can use the stashed key for establishing sessions. > > I've made a few changes since the last set: > > - convert the tool to use the new "secret" key_type that I'm proposing > > - a manpage has been added > > - the key is now prefixed with "cifs:" instead of "cifscreds:" > > The idea here is that we want to be able to allow users to stash their > NTLM credentials in the kernel, so that it's possible to establish a > session on the fly when that user walks into a multiuser mount. > > This set should be considered in conjunction with the kernel patchset > that I proposed earlier today: > > [PATCH 0/3] cifs: allow multiuser mounts with authtypes besides krb5 > > > Jeff Layton (15): > util: move getusername to util.c > cifscreds: add unused attribute to argv parm in cifscreds_clearall > cifscreds: eliminate domain parm from most functions > cifscreds: remove user parameter from create_description > cifscreds: make username part of value instead of description > cifscreds: make usage use "return" and have callers return > cifscreds: move option parsing into main() > cifscreds: make username parameter optional > cifscreds: add --domain flag > cifscreds: loosen allowed characters in domain names > cifscreds: use the session keyring > cifscreds: make cifscreds use the "unreadable" keyring > cifscreds: make key_search use keyctl_search > cifscreds: change prefix on keys to "cifs:" instead of "cifscreds:" > cifscreds: add a manpage > > Makefile.am | 1 + > cifscreds.1 | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > cifscreds.c | 311 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------- > cifscreds.pod | 81 +++++++++++++++ > mount.cifs.c | 11 -- > util.c | 13 +++ > util.h | 1 + > 7 files changed, 418 insertions(+), 188 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 cifscreds.1 > create mode 100644 cifscreds.pod > I've gone ahead and merged this patchset with some small changes to account for the new "login" key type, and some small changes to the new manpage. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
