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Commit eef914a9 authored by Steve French's avatar Steve French
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[SMB3] Improve security, move default dialect to SMB3 from old CIFS



Due to recent publicity about security vulnerabilities in the
much older CIFS dialect, move the default dialect to the
widely accepted (and quite secure) SMB3.0 dialect from the
old default of the CIFS dialect.

We do not want to be encouraging use of less secure dialects,
and both Microsoft and CERT now strongly recommend not using the
older CIFS dialect (SMB Security Best Practices
"recommends disabling SMBv1").

SMB3 is both secure and widely available: in Windows 8 and later,
Samba and Macs.

Users can still choose to explicitly mount with the less secure
dialect (for old servers) by choosing "vers=1.0" on the cifs
mount

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
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