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may contain the pathname of a file to read the password from\&. A single line of input is read and used as the password\&.
.SH "NOTES"
.PP
-This command may be used only by root, unless installed setuid, in which case the noeexec and nosuid mount flags are enabled\&. When installed as a setuid program, the program follows the conventions set forth by the mount program for user mounts\&.
+This command may be used only by root, unless installed setuid, in which case the noeexec and nosuid mount flags are enabled\&. When installed as a setuid program, the program follows the conventions set forth by the mount program for user mounts, with the added restriction that users must be able to chdir() into the
+mountpoint prior to the mount in order to be able to mount onto it.
.PP
Some samba client tools like smbclient(8) honour client\-side configuration parameters present in smb\&.conf\&. Unlike those client tools,
\fImount\&.cifs\fR