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smbfs: caution against use in the manpage

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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
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Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
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Ed Maste 2022-04-06 14:25:37 -04:00
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@ -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