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
COMMANDS
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 substitute 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 kernels.
Since
cifscreds adds keys to the session keyring, it is highly
recommended 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>.