Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-05 Thread Steve French (smfltc)
Shirish S Pargaonkar wrote: When a session setup request is sent as an anonymous user (NUL user), should/could there be password associated with that? Right now, sec=none option, will prompt you for a password. And when we add code to retry session setup as anonymous user if the first

Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-05 Thread Jeff Layton
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:41:35AM -0500, Shirish S Pargaonkar wrote: > > When a session setup request is sent as an anonymous user (NUL user), > should/could there be > password associated with that? > Right now, sec=none option, will prompt you for a password. We should probably turn off

Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-05 Thread Jeff Layton
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:41:35AM -0500, Shirish S Pargaonkar wrote: When a session setup request is sent as an anonymous user (NUL user), should/could there be password associated with that? Right now, sec=none option, will prompt you for a password. We should probably turn off password

Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-05 Thread Steve French (smfltc)
Shirish S Pargaonkar wrote: When a session setup request is sent as an anonymous user (NUL user), should/could there be password associated with that? Right now, sec=none option, will prompt you for a password. And when we add code to retry session setup as anonymous user if the first

Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-04 Thread Steve French (smfltc)
Jeff Layton wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:26:29AM -0500, Steve French (smfltc) wrote: Jeff Layton wrote: We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the code, it looks like CIFS

Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-04 Thread Jeff Layton
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:26:29AM -0500, Steve French (smfltc) wrote: > Jeff Layton wrote: > >We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null > >username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the > >code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username

Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-04 Thread Steve French (smfltc)
Jeff Layton wrote: We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username from userspace in order to trigger an anonymous mount. The mount.cifs code

Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-04 Thread Steve French (smfltc)
Jeff Layton wrote: We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username from userspace in order to trigger an anonymous mount. The mount.cifs code

Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-04 Thread Jeff Layton
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:26:29AM -0500, Steve French (smfltc) wrote: Jeff Layton wrote: We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username from

Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-04 Thread Steve French (smfltc)
Jeff Layton wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:26:29AM -0500, Steve French (smfltc) wrote: Jeff Layton wrote: We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the code, it looks like CIFS

Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:32:33PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null > username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the > code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username from userspace in order > to

[PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-03 Thread Jeff Layton
We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username from userspace in order to trigger an anonymous mount. The mount.cifs code doesn't seem to ever pass a

[PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-03 Thread Jeff Layton
We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username from userspace in order to trigger an anonymous mount. The mount.cifs code doesn't seem to ever pass a

Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:32:33PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username from userspace in order to trigger an