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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
3<refentry id="cifs.upcall.8">
4
5
6<refmeta>
7 <refentrytitle>cifs.upcall</refentrytitle>
8 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
9 <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
10 <refmiscinfo class="manual">System Administration tools</refmiscinfo>
11 <refmiscinfo class="version">3.3</refmiscinfo>
12</refmeta>
13
14<refnamediv>
15 <refname>cifs.upcall</refname>
16 <refpurpose>Userspace upcall helper for Common Internet File System (CIFS)</refpurpose>
17</refnamediv>
18
19<refsynopsisdiv>
20 <cmdsynopsis>
21 <command>cifs.upcall</command>
22 <arg choice="opt">-c</arg>
23 <arg choice="opt">-v</arg>
24 <arg choice="req">keyid</arg>
25 </cmdsynopsis>
26</refsynopsisdiv>
27
28
29<refsect1>
30 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
31
32 <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
33 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
34
35<para>cifs.upcall is a userspace helper program for the linux CIFS client
36filesystem. There are a number of activities that the kernel cannot easily
37do itself. This program is a callout program that does these things for the
38kernel and then returns the result.</para>
39
40<para>cifs.upcall is generally intended to be run when the kernel calls
41request-key<manvolnum>8</manvolnum> for a particular key type. While it
42can be run directly from the command-line, it's not generally intended
43to be run that way.</para>
44</refsect1>
45
46<refsect1>
47 <title>OPTIONS</title>
48 <variablelist>
49 <varlistentry>
50 <term>-c</term>
51 <listitem><para>When handling a kerberos upcall, use a service principal that starts with "cifs/". The default is to use the "host/" service principal.
52 </para></listitem>
53 </varlistentry>
54
55 <varlistentry>
56 <term>-v</term>
57 <listitem><para>Print version number and exit.
58 </para></listitem>
59 </varlistentry>
60 </variablelist>
61</refsect1>
62
63<refsect1>
64 <title>CONFIGURATION FOR KEYCTL</title>
65 <para>cifs.upcall is designed to be called from the kernel via the
66 request-key callout program. This requires that request-key be told
67 where and how to call this program. The current cifs.upcall program
68 handles two different key types:
69 </para>
70
71 <variablelist>
72 <varlistentry>
73 <term>cifs.spnego</term>
74 <listitem><para>This keytype is for retrieving kerberos session keys
75 </para></listitem>
76 </varlistentry>
77
78 <varlistentry>
79 <term>dns_resolver</term>
80 <listitem><para>This key type is for resolving hostnames into IP addresses
81 </para></listitem>
82 </varlistentry>
83 </variablelist>
84
85 <para>To make this program useful for CIFS, you'll need to set up entries for them in request-key.conf<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>. Here's an example of an entry for each key type:</para>
86<programlisting>
87#OPERATION TYPE D C PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2...
88#========= ============= = = ==========================================
89create cifs.spnego * * /usr/local/sbin/cifs.upcall -c %k
90create dns_resolver * * /usr/local/sbin/cifs.upcall %k
91</programlisting>
92<para>
93See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>request-key.conf<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></refentrytitle></citerefentry> for more info on each field.
94</para>
95</refsect1>
96
97<refsect1>
98 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
99 <para>
100 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>request-key.conf</refentrytitle>
101 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
102 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mount.cifs</refentrytitle>
103 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
104 </para>
105</refsect1>
106
107<refsect1>
108 <title>AUTHOR</title>
109
110 <para>Igor Mammedov wrote the cifs.upcall program.</para>
111 <para>Jeff Layton authored this manpage.</para>
112 <para>The maintainer of the Linux CIFS VFS is Steve French.</para>
113 <para>The <ulink url="mailto:linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org">Linux
114 CIFS Mailing list</ulink> is the preferred place to ask
115 questions regarding these programs.
116 </para>
117</refsect1>
118
119</refentry>
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