[CIFS] update cifs change log

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
index 68b5c1169d9d..bd2343d4c6a6 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/README
+++ b/fs/cifs/README
@@ -542,10 +542,20 @@ SecurityFlags		Flags which control security negotiation and
                         hashing mechanisms (as "must use") on the other hand 
                         does not make much sense. Default flags are 
                                 0x07007 
-                        (NTLM, NTLMv2 and packet signing allowed).  Maximum 
+                        (NTLM, NTLMv2 and packet signing allowed).  The maximum 
                         allowable flags if you want to allow mounts to servers
                         using weaker password hashes is 0x37037 (lanman,
-                        plaintext, ntlm, ntlmv2, signing allowed):
+                        plaintext, ntlm, ntlmv2, signing allowed).  Some
+                        SecurityFlags require the corresponding menuconfig
+                        options to be enabled (lanman and plaintext require
+                        CONFIG_CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH for example).  Enabling
+                        plaintext authentication currently requires also
+                        enabling lanman authentication in the security flags
+                        because the cifs module only supports sending
+                        laintext passwords using the older lanman dialect
+                        form of the session setup SMB.  (e.g. for authentication
+                        using plain text passwords, set the SecurityFlags
+                        to 0x30030):
  
                         may use packet signing                          0x00001
                         must use packet signing                         0x01001