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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 With the overhaul of the cifscreds utility, I figured this would be a good time to do a new release. Highlights: * admins can now tell cifs.upcall to use an alternate krb5.conf file * on remount, mount.cifs no longer adds a duplicate mtab entry * the cifscreds utility has seen a major overhaul to allow for multiuser mounts without krb5 auth

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nothing terribly earth-shattering in this release. We had a number of reports of build-breaking problems in version 5.4, mostly due to the fact that we now turn on -Werror by default, and a number of patches to fix them. I'm starting to have doubts as to whether it's a good idea to keep - -Werror in the default CFLAGS. This is built in a

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Time for a new cifs-utils release! The big bullet point in this release is a new pam_cifscreds module that has been added by Orion Poplawski. This release also cleans some unused cruft out of some of the binaries so they're quite a bit smaller now and fixes a few bugs that Coverity turned up. Go forth and download! webpage:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wow, about 6 months since last cifs-utils release. How time flies. With Guenter's fix for the uppercasing of device names last week, it's probably a good time to go ahead make a new one. There's not much activity this cycle so this is mostly bugfixes, though there is a new autoconf option to allow you to configure the PAM installation

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's been a while since our last release and Shirish's new cifs.idmap utility has now been merged. The last release was 4.9, so I've been a bit torn -- should I call this one 4.10 or 5.0? Then I figured...when in doubt, copy Linus. Since he just bumped the major version number of the kernel, this is now version 5.0. The main changes: -

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The last cifs-utils release (4.6) was on July 30th, so it's probably a good time to go ahead and release a new one with kernel 2.6.36 shipping soon. Major highlights: - - new cifscreds program has been added. This will eventually allow for stashing of username/password in the kernel's keyring for use by cifs. Kernel code for this is not

The main changes in this release are moving generation of manpages to .rst format and updating default behavior of the protocol version selection (auto-negotiate). webpage: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils tarball: https://download.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/ git: git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git gitweb:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Again, nothing earth-shattering in this release. Mostly some minor bugfixes and cleanups. Some highlights: - - setcifsacl can now work without a plugin - - systemd-ask-password is found using $PATH now - - cifs.upcall now works with KEYRING: credcaches Go forth and download! webpage: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils tarball:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Time for another cifs-utils release! Nothing terribly earth shattering here. Some distros (like Fedora) are moving krb5 credcaches out of /tmp by default. Users of these distros will definitely want to upgrade. Highlights: * Fixes for mounting with '/' in usernames with sec=krb5 * Support for DIR: type krb5 ccaches * support for

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 With the merge of the new plugin interface, it's probably a good time for a new cifs-utils release. Distro packagers should take special note of the changes with the new plugin interface since it has implications for how the tools are packaged. In particular, it's necessary to set a symlink to the plugin in the correct location

Time for a new cifs-utils release! The main change in this release is a set of cleanups to cifs.upcall to make it more efficient and work better with alternate style credcaches. No longer does it blithely stumble around in /tmp looking for credcaches. We now just use the default credcache that to which the krb5.conf points. Go forth and download!

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It has been a few months since the last cifs-utils release. There hasn't been much activity, but there are a few bugfixes that we ought to get into a release. So, nothing much earth-shattering here, mostly just bugfixes and documentation updates. With this release too, support for NFS-style devicenames has now been removed (as previously

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Since we now have a fix of sorts for CVE-2012-1586, it seems like as good a time as any to do a new release. Go forth, download and build cifs-utils-5.4. Highlights: * the "rootsbindir" can now be specified at configure time * mount.cifs now supports the -s option by passing "sloppy" to the kernel in the options string *

The main change in this release is to address some regressions that crept in when we switched to a scheme that does not rely on walking /tmp to look for credcaches. We now will use the information from the kernel about the initiating pid, reach into that task's environment and scrape out the $KRB5CCNAME variable. This can be problematic in setuid situations, so we avoid doing that for the

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Time for another cifs-utils release! Most of the patches in this release are for cifs.idmap, getcifsacl and setcifsacl. There were many bugs in those tools, so anyone that's deploying or using them is highly encouraged to upgrade. Highlights: * NFS-style device names are being deprecated in 6.0. Anyone using that sort of device name should

It has been a few months since the last cifs-utils release, and again there's been almost no activity. Still, at some point we need to get the bugfixes into the field, no matter how minor they are. So, nothing much earth-shattering here, mostly just bugfixes, and one new feature to allow cifs.upcall to use a dedicated keytab. Go forth and download! webpage:

Nothing Earth-shattering here, but it has been quite some time (well over a year!) since the last release. There has been little activity other than a few minor bugfixes. But, this is probably a reasonable time to do a release that to make things easier on the packaging folks: webpage: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils tarball: ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/

This release is primarily a number of small bugfixes and cleanups. I wanted to do a release with those prior to the coming overhaul of mount.cifs to allow it to more safely be installed setuid root. There a couple of other noticeable changes too: - the version reported by all programs in the tarball now matches the VERSION define set by autoconf. That is, if someone runs "mount.cifs

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This release contains a significant overhaul of mount.cifs that is intended to make it safer to install setuid root. With this release, setuid capability is no longer disabled by default. Among the changes are: - - mount.cifs now does privilege separation. It forks very early and the child drops privileges. Most of the mount option processing is

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The last release (4.7) was back in October. We've had a number of good fixes committed in the last few weeks, so it's a good time to cut a new release. Also, note that I've transplanted the cifs-utils manpage to the Samba Wiki. The old URL still works and redirects browsers to the new page. o hardcoded paths in the cifs.upcall manpage