[CIFS] update cifs change log

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / fs / cifs / README

diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
index 68b5c1169d9d7e3eff5a3aff67cfb60980fa2050..bd2343d4c6a638218d50c80a9091ef3dd8205a14 100644 (file)
--- 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