From 202f4b43209da32afc7ce5445a8f561c354c8f82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Layton Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:11:58 -0400 Subject: manpage: add mount.cifs manpage entry for "multiuser" option Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton --- mount.cifs.8 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'mount.cifs.8') diff --git a/mount.cifs.8 b/mount.cifs.8 index d01f2a3..7d2bf69 100644 --- a/mount.cifs.8 +++ b/mount.cifs.8 @@ -396,6 +396,13 @@ Enable local disk caching using FS-Cache for CIFS\&. This option could be useful NOTE: This feature is available only in the recent kernels that have been built with the kernel config option CONFIG_CIFS_FSCACHE. You also need to have cachefilesd daemon installed and running to make the cache operational\&. .RE .PP +multiuser +.RS 4 +Map user accesses to individual credentials when accessing the server\&. By default, CIFS mounts only use a single set of user credentials (the mount credentials) when accessing a share\&. With this option, the client instead creates a new session with the server using the user's credentials whenever a new user accesses the mount. Further accesses by that user will also use those credentials\&. Because the kernel cannot prompt for passwords, multiuser mounts are limited to mounts using sec= options that don't require passwords. +.sp +With this change, it's feasible for the server to handle permissions enforcement, so this option also implies "noperm"\&. Furthermore, when unix extensions aren't in use and the administrator has not overriden ownership using the uid= or gid= options, ownership of files is presented as the current user accessing the share\&. +.RE +.PP \-\-verbose .RS 4 Print additional debugging information for the mount\&. Note that this parameter must be specified before the \-o\&. For example: -- cgit v1.2.3