HP CIFS Client A.02.02 Administrator's Guide

Commandline Utilities
cifslogin
Chapter 578
-N Do not prompt for a password. This option may be used
to avoid prompting for a password if you are already
logged in at the server or if the user does 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 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.