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| author | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2022-04-06 18:25:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2022-04-06 18:32:09 +0000 |
| commit | 7c140ef034c33ab0b16b535f3d5f945dc8f71cb4 (patch) | |
| tree | 20a6a9d0236344b0178aa7a5868a5aae7f3b4cb0 | |
| parent | bef7104571f35eeffc27b25d8857a7940dd23ab8 (diff) | |
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smbfs: caution against use in the manpage
It supports only the obsolete SMBv1 protocol, is known to be buggy, and
likely has security vulnerabilities. It will either be updated or
removed in the future, but for now at least describe the current state
in the man page.
PR: 263043
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/smbfs.5 | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/smbfs.5 b/share/man/man5/smbfs.5 index 5326d8192587..79eaa9b20b39 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/smbfs.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/smbfs.5 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 8, 2020 +.Dd April 6, 2022 .Dt SMBFS 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -46,6 +46,25 @@ smbfs_load="YES" .Sh DESCRIPTION The SMB driver is an implementation of the CIFS (Common Internet Filesystem) network protocol. +.Pp +.Bf -symbolic +The +.Nm +filesystem driver supports only the obsolete SMBv1 protocol. +.Nm +has known bugs and likely has security vulnerabilities. +.Nm +and userspace counterparts +.Xr smbutil 1 +and +.Xr mount_smbfs 8 +may be removed from a future version of +.Fx . +Users are advised to evaluate the +.Pa sysutils/fusefs-smbnetfs +port instead. +.Ef +.Pp .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr smbutil 1 , .Xr mount_smbfs 8 |