HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Release Notes, April 2005

HP CIFS Client A.02.01

Features and Fixes in Recent Releases

Chapter 110

— Shortcuts to the Kerberos commands, klist(1) and kdestroy(1), have been

implemented. These shortcuts are customized to operate on multiple CIFS Client

speciﬁc Kerberos credentials ﬁles. See the man page for cifsclient in the HP CIFS

Client Administrator’s Guide or enter cifsclient -h for details.

— A shortcut to fuser(1M) has been implemented. This allows the system

administrator to easily discover which users are accessing CIFS mountpoints, in the

event that the unmount commnad fails with “device busy”. See the man page for

cifsclient in the HP CIFS Client Administrator’s Guide or enter cifsclient -h

for details.

— cifsclient status has been enhanced to check for possibly stale CIFS mounts

(system mount table entries of fstype cifs that are not recongnized by the CIFS

Client).

For the HP CIFS Client A.01.08 and earlier

• Error reporting by PAM-NTLM

Error reporting by the PAM-NTLM module has been enhanced such that if PAM-NTLM

cannot connect to the password server, an appropriate message is written to syslog.

• PAM-NTLM can fail to handle Unix password expiration

A ﬁx has been implemented for a problem wherein a user with an expired Unix password

can login to the host system without being forced to change their expired password. This

occurs only if the recommended “stacked” conﬁguration of libpam_ntlm.1 and

libpam_unix.1 is used and the user is not authenticated by the NTLM server. With this

ﬁx, PAM-UNIX forces the user to change their expired Unix password, as expected.

• Disconnected user sessions cannot reconnect

This enhancement enables user connections that have been terminated by the server to be

automatically re-established when the user attempts to access the server.

• Logﬁle truncation at max size does not work

This ﬁx enforces the maximum logﬁle size of 50 Mbytes. If the logﬁle reaches this size, it is

saved with .prev appended to its name (overwriting any other previously saved copy). The

logﬁle is then restarted from 0 bytes.

• Incorrect timestamp after DST switch

This ﬁx improves the synchronization of ﬁle timestamps between HP CIFS clients and

Windows servers, when the time changes between standard and daylight savings time.

• NetBIOS scope broken if scope has embedded period (“.”) character(s)