Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 May 2007 08:03:03 -0400 | From | Jeff Layton <> | Subject | Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount |
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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 prompting if sec=none is specified.
> And when we add code to retry session setup as anonymous user if the first > session setup request > fails, should that retry request be sent with the password or without > password? > > When smbfs sends requests as an anonymous user, it does not send a password > along with it. >
I'd say we'd want to avoid sending along the password in any situation where it wasn't really needed.
-- Jeff
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