HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Administrator's Guide, August 2003

Commandline Utilities
cifsmount
Chapter 560
-N Do not prompt for a password. This option may be used
to avoid prompting for a password if you do not have a
password.
-u Enables plain text passwords. The HP CIFS Client
refuses to send passwords in plain text to the server by
default because this is a security risk. There are tools
available that sniff the network for plain text
passwords. If you really must send the password in
plain text (e.g., because your server does not allow
password encryption), you can enable it with this
option. It is ignored if you are already logged in at the
server.
-f Forces mount. When this option is used, the mount is
done even if the server is not responding. No requests
are sent to the server. Consequently, none of the
parameters can be checked for validity.
-s Saves mount and password in database. Do not use
unless you understand the security implications. HP
CIFS Client can maintain a database of mounts,
usernames, and passwords. This database is used at
startup to re-establish stored mounts and to log in
users on demand, even if you are not logged in at the
client.
This option may be useful for automounting and to run
programs by cron that cannot ask the user for a
password. Passwords are stored in the HP CIFS
Client's user database file. It is possible to get the HP
CIFS hash values of the passwords (which is
functionally equivalent to the passwords themselves)
out of this file, although the file itself is not sufficient.
You can use this option safely only if you are the only
one who has physical or root access to your machine or
if you trust everyone who has this access. The HP CIFS
Client does not store unencrypted passwords in the
user database. If your server does not support
encrypted passwords, you cannot use this option.