cifscreds

CIFSCREDS(1)                                                      CIFSCREDS(1)

NAME
       cifscreds - manage NTLM credentials in kernel keyring

SYNOPSIS
       cifscreds add|clear|clearall|update [-u username] [-d] host|domain

DESCRIPTION
       The  cifscreds program is a tool for managing credentials (username and
       password) for the purpose of establishing sessions in multiuser mounts.

       When a cifs filesystem is mounted with the "multiuser" option, and does
       not use krb5 authentication, it needs to be able to get the credentials
       for each user from somewhere. The cifscreds program is the tool used to
       provide these credentials to the kernel.

       The  first  non-option argument to cifscreds is a command (see the COM-
       MANDS section below). The second non-option argument is a  hostname  or
       address, or an NT domain name.

COMMANDS
       add
          Add credentials to the kernel to be used for connecting to the given
          server, or servers in the given domain.

       clear
          Clear credentials for a particular host or domain from the kernel.

       clearall
          Clear all cifs credentials from the kernel.

       update
          Update stored credentials in the kernel  with  a  new  username  and
          password.

OPTIONS
       -d, --domain
          The provided host/domain argument is a NT domainname.

          Ordinarily the second argument provided to cifscreds is treated as a
          hostname or IP address. This option causes the cifscreds program  to
          treat that argument as an NT domainname instead.

          If  there  are not host specific credentials for the mounted server,
          then the kernel will next look  for  a  set  of  domain  credentials
          equivalent to the domain= option provided at mount time.

       -u, --username
          Ordinarily,  the  username  is derived from the unix username of the
          user adding the credentials. This option allows the user to  substi-
          tute a different username.

NOTES
       The  cifscreds  utility  requires  a  kernel built with support for the
       login key type. That key type was added in v3.3 in mainline Linux  ker-
       nels.

       Since  cifscreds  adds keys to the session keyring, it is highly recom-
       mended that one use pam_keyinit to ensure that  a  session  keyring  is
       established at login time.

SEE ALSO
       pam_keyinit(8)

AUTHORS
       The  cifscreds  program  was  originally developed by Igor Druzhinin <-
       jaxbrigs@gmail.com>. This manpage and a redesign of the code  was  done
       by Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>.

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