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| author | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2009-05-06 04:16:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2009-05-06 04:16:04 +0000 |
| commit | ac68392460ffefed13020967bae04edc4d3add06 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b5e43db83752e8927ee5e449dfafefe12ae1f7d /fs/cifs/README | |
| parent | 844823cb822932d2c599abf38692e3d6a5b5a320 (diff) | |
[CIFS] Allow raw ntlmssp code to be enabled with sec=ntlmssp
On mount, "sec=ntlmssp" can now be specified to allow
"rawntlmssp" security to be enabled during
CIFS session establishment/authentication (ntlmssp used to
require specifying krb5 which was counterintuitive).
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/README | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index 07434181623b..db208ddb9899 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -651,7 +651,15 @@ Experimental When set to 1 used to enable certain experimental signing turned on in case buffer was modified just before it was sent, also this flag will be used to use the new experimental directory change - notification code). + notification code). When set to 2 enables + an additional experimental feature, "raw ntlmssp" + session establishment support (which allows + specifying "sec=ntlmssp" on mount). The Linux cifs + module will use ntlmv2 authentication encapsulated + in "raw ntlmssp" (not using SPNEGO) when + "sec=ntlmssp" is specified on mount. + This support also requires building cifs with + the CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL configuration flag. These experimental features and tracing can be enabled by changing flags in /proc/fs/cifs (after the cifs module has been installed or built into the |