HP CIFS Client A.02.02.03 Administrator's Guide

-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.

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 -U 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.

Files

Usernames and passwords are stored encrypted in the HP CIFS Client's user database file. The

path to the user database file can be configured in HP CIFS Client's configuration file. The default

path is

/var/opt/cifsclient/cifsclient.udb