How to Delete a CIFS Persistent Password

Use this procedure to delete persistent passwords that are stored by the smbutil login command.

If you want to delete all persistent passwords, see How to Delete All CIFS Persistent Passwords.

1. Delete a persistent password for the specified server by doing one of the following:

   • To delete the persistent password for a specified user, type:

     $ smbutil logout user@server

     For example, the following command removes the persistent password for terry@solarsystem:

     $ smbutil logout terry@solarsystem

     After the password is deleted, Terry is prompted for his password each time that he performs a transaction with solarsystem.

   • To delete the password for the user running the smbutil logout command, type:

     $ smbutil logout server

     For example, when user dana runs the following command, he removes his persistent password for solarsystem:

     $ smbutil logout solarsystem

     After the password is deleted, Dana is prompted for his password each time that he performs a transaction with solarsystem.