From 4b952a9b0877dbe8f0f69b2747abe79e3bbd2865 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve French Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:46:13 +0000 Subject: [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: Steve French --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/cifs/connect.c') diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 4093d5332930..71f77914ce93 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.2