mount -t cifs with prompt for password?

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Take a look at the man page for mount.cifs, which explains that if the password=... incantation is omitted, then it will get the password by prompting.

You can put the username, password and domain in a file and use the option 'credentials'.

But that still exposes the password in the file.

You can encrypt the file and make a script to decrypt the file into a temporary file, mount the share and remove the temporary file. The script could even be run automatically at startup.

In case you only mount the share manually simply remove the command from the history:

1. Start by running the command 'history'.
2. Look up the mount command and remember the line number.
3. Remove the mount command from the history, by running the following command 'history -d <line number="">'</line>