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diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index bec7b3fc8a72..7b4ac096cd11 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -101,12 +101,15 @@ Allowing User Unmounts ====================== To permit users to ummount directories that they have user mounted (see above), the utility umount.cifs may be used. It may be invoked directly, or if -umount.cifs is placed in /sbin, umount -i can invoke the cifs umount helper +umount.cifs is placed in /sbin, umount can invoke the cifs umount helper (at least for most versions of the umount utility) for umount of cifs -mounts. As with mount.cifs, to enable user unmounts umount.cifs must be marked -as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs"). For this utility to succeed -the target path must be a cifs mount, and the uid of the current user must -match the uid of the user who mounted the resource. +mounts, unless umount is invoked with -i (which will avoid invoking a umount +helper). As with mount.cifs, to enable user unmounts umount.cifs must be marked +as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs") or equivalent (some distributions +allow adding entries to a file to the /etc/permissions file to achieve the +equivalent suid effect). For this utility to succeed the target path +must be a cifs mount, and the uid of the current user must match the uid +of the user who mounted the resource. Also note that the customary way of allowing user mounts and unmounts is (instead of using mount.cifs and unmount.cifs as suid) to add a line @@ -404,6 +407,8 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows: This has no effect if the server does not support Unicode on the wire. nomapchars Do not translate any of these seven characters (default). + remount remount the share (often used to change from ro to rw mounts + or vice versa) The mount.cifs mount helper also accepts a few mount options before -o including: |