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

Commandline Utilities
cifslogin
Chapter 564
-f Forces login. When this option is used, the login is done
even when the server is not responding. No requests
are sent to the server. Consequently, none of the
parameters can be checked for validity.
-s Saves password in database. Do not use unless you
understand the security implications. This option can
maintain a database of mounts, username, 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 have no possibility to ask the
user for a password. Passwords are stored in the HP
CIFS Client's user database file. It is possible to get the
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.
Examples
If local user steve has mounted a share from server bigserver, local user
bill has no access to the mounted files because he is not logged in at the
server. Bill, who has an account on bigserver under his real name miller,
can do the following to gain access:
cifslogin bigserver miller
Bill will be prompted for a password and if it is correct, he will be given
access to the share with the same privileges that user miller has on
bigserver.