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authorKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2009-01-09 11:22:00 +0100
committerKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2009-01-09 11:22:00 +0100
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docs: Improve man mount.cifs.
Add hint about specifying the workgroup in the credentials file. Whitespace cleanup. This fixes bug #4541. Patch based on proposed patch from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>. Thanks for reporting and providing a patch! Karolin
-rw-r--r--docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
index 51a22b3879..54fbc139b4 100644
--- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ to be specified as part of the username.
<listitem><para>specifies the CIFS password. If this
option is not given then the environment variable
-<emphasis>PASSWD</emphasis> is used. If the password is not specified
+<emphasis>PASSWD</emphasis> is used. If the password is not specified
directly or indirectly via an argument to mount, <emphasis>mount.cifs</emphasis> will prompt
for a password, unless the guest option is specified.
</para>
@@ -106,14 +106,16 @@ below) or entered at the password prompt will be read correctly.
<listitem><para>
specifies a file that contains a username
- and/or password. The format of the file is:
+ and/or password and optionally the name of the
+ workgroup. The format of the file is:
</para>
<programlisting>
username=<replaceable>value</replaceable>
password=<replaceable>value</replaceable>
+ workgroup=<replaceable>value</replaceable>
</programlisting>
-
+
<para>
This is preferred over having passwords in plaintext in a
shared file, such as <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>. Be sure to protect any