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Commit 4b952a9b authored by Steve French's avatar Steve French
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[CIFS] Allow null user connections 



Some servers are configured to only allow null user mounts for
guest access.  Allow nul user (anonymous) mounts e.g.
	mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt -o username=

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
parent 7ca85ba7

fs/cifs/CHANGES

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Version 1.46

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Support deep tree mounts.  Better support OS/2, Win9x (DOS) time stamps.

Allow null user to be specified on mount ("username="). Do not return

EINVAL on readdir when filldir fails due to overwritten blocksize

(fixes FC problem)



Version 1.45

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fs/cifs/connect.c

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@@ -822,10 +822,13 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(char *options, const char *devname,struct smb_vol *vol) 
		} else if (strnicmp(data, "nouser_xattr",12) == 0) {

			vol->no_xattr = 1;

		} else if (strnicmp(data, "user", 4) == 0) {

			if (!value || !*value) {

			if (!value) {

				printk(KERN_WARNING

				       "CIFS: invalid or missing username\n");

				return 1;	/* needs_arg; */

			} else if(!*value) {

				/* null user, ie anonymous, authentication */

				vol->nullauth = 1;

			}

			if (strnlen(value, 200) < 200) {

				vol->username = value;
@@ -1642,6 +1645,8 @@ cifs_mount(struct super_block *sb, struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, 
		/* BB fixme parse for domain name here */

		cFYI(1, ("Username: %s ", volume_info.username));



	} else if (volume_info.nullauth) {

		cFYI(1,("null user"));

	} else {

		cifserror("No username specified");

        /* In userspace mount helper we can get user name from alternate