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+<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 32. SWAT - The Samba Web Administration Tool</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Project Documentation"><link rel="up" href="migration.html" title="Part IV. Migration and Updating"><link rel="previous" href="NT4Migration.html" title="Chapter 31. Migration from NT4 PDC to Samba-3 PDC"><link rel="next" href="troubleshooting.html" title="Part V. Troubleshooting"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 32. SWAT - The Samba Web Administration Tool</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NT4Migration.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part IV. Migration and Updating</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="troubleshooting.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="SWAT"></a>Chapter 32. SWAT - The Samba Web Administration Tool</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">John</span> <span class="othername">H.</span> <span class="surname">Terpstra</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:jht@samba.org">jht@samba.org</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">April 21, 2003</p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3003929">Features and Benefits</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3003963">Enabling SWAT for use</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006322">Securing SWAT through SSL</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006435">The SWAT Home Page</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006499">Global Settings</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006604">Share Settings</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006669">Printers Settings</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006733">The SWAT Wizard</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006781">The Status Page</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006833">The View Page</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006856">The Password Change Page</a></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><p>
+There are many and varied opinions regarding the usefulness or otherwise of SWAT.
+No matter how hard one tries to produce the perfect configuration tool it remains
+an object of personal taste. SWAT is a tool that will allow web based configuration
+of samba. It has a wizard that may help to get samba configured quickly, it has context
+sensitive help on each smb.conf parameter, it provides for monitoring of current state
+of connection information, and it allows network wide MS Windows network password
+management.
+</p><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3003929"></a>Features and Benefits</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+There are network administrators who believe that it is a good idea to write systems
+documentation inside configuration files, for them SWAT will aways be a nasty tool. SWAT
+does not store the configuration file in any intermediate form, rather, it stores only the
+parameter settings, so when SWAT writes the smb.conf file to disk it will write only
+those parameters that are at other than the default settings. The result is that all comments
+will be lost from the <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> file. Additionally, the parameters will be written back in
+internal ordering.
+</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>
+So before using SWAT please be warned - SWAT will completely replace your smb.conf with
+a fully optimised file that has been stripped of all comments you might have placed there
+and only non-default settings will be written to the file.
+</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3003963"></a>Enabling SWAT for use</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+SWAT should be installed to run via the network super daemon. Depending on which system
+your Unix/Linux system has you will have either an <b class="command">inetd</b> or
+<b class="command">xinetd</b> based system.
+</p><p>
+The nature and location of the network super-daemon varies with the operating system
+implementation. The control file (or files) can be located in the file 
+<tt class="filename">/etc/inetd.conf</tt> or in the directory <tt class="filename">/etc/[x]inet.d</tt>
+or similar.
+</p><p>
+The control entry for the older style file might be:
+</p><pre class="programlisting">
+	# swat is the Samba Web Administration Tool
+	swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat
+</pre><p>
+A control file for the newer style xinetd could be:
+</p><p>
+</p><pre class="programlisting">
+	# default: off
+	# description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \
+	#              to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \
+	#              connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser.
+	service swat
+	{
+		port    = 901
+		socket_type     = stream
+		wait    = no
+		only_from = localhost
+		user    = root
+		server  = /usr/sbin/swat
+		log_on_failure  += USERID
+		disable = yes
+	}
+</pre><p>
+
+</p><p>
+Both the above examples assume that the <b class="command">swat</b> binary has been
+located in the <tt class="filename">/usr/sbin</tt> directory. In addition to the above
+SWAT will use a directory access point from which it will load it's help files
+as well as other control information. The default location for this on most Linux
+systems is in the directory <tt class="filename">/usr/share/samba/swat</tt>. The default
+location using samba defaults will be <tt class="filename">/usr/local/samba/swat</tt>.
+</p><p>
+Access to SWAT will prompt for a logon. If you log onto SWAT as any non-root user
+the only permission allowed is to view certain aspects of configuration as well as
+access to the password change facility. The buttons that will be exposed to the non-root
+user are: <span class="guibutton">HOME</span>, <span class="guibutton">STATUS</span>, <span class="guibutton">VIEW</span>, 
+<span class="guibutton">PASSWORD</span>. The only page that allows
+change capability in this case is <span class="guibutton">PASSWORD</span>.
+</p><p>
+So long as you log onto SWAT as the user <span class="emphasis"><em>root</em></span> you should obtain
+full change and commit ability. The buttons that will be exposed includes:
+<span class="guibutton">HOME</span>, <span class="guibutton">GLOBALS</span>, <span class="guibutton">SHARES</span>, <span class="guibutton">PRINTERS</span>, 
+<span class="guibutton">WIZARD</span>, <span class="guibutton">STATUS</span>, <span class="guibutton">VIEW</span>, <span class="guibutton">PASSWORD</span>.
+</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006322"></a>Securing SWAT through SSL</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+Lots of people have asked about how to setup SWAT with SSL to allow for secure remote
+administration of Samba. Here is a method that works, courtesy of Markus Krieger
+</p><p>
+Modifications to the swat setup are as following: 
+</p><div class="procedure"><ol type="1"><li><p>
+	install OpenSSL 
+	</p></li><li><p>
+	generate certificate and private key
+
+	</p><pre class="screen">
+<tt class="prompt">root# </tt><b class="userinput"><tt>/usr/bin/openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -config \
+ 	/usr/share/doc/packages/stunnel/stunnel.cnf \
+	-out /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem -keyout /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem</tt></b>
+	</pre></li><li><p>
+	remove swat-entry from [x]inetd 
+	</p></li><li><p>
+	start stunnel
+
+	</p><pre class="screen">
+<tt class="prompt">root# </tt><b class="userinput"><tt>stunnel -p /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem -d 901 \
+	 -l /usr/local/samba/bin/swat swat </tt></b>
+	</pre></li></ol></div><p>
+afterwords simply contact to swat by using the URL <a href="https://myhost:901" target="_top">https://myhost:901</a>, accept the certificate
+and the SSL connection is up.
+</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006435"></a>The SWAT Home Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+The SWAT title page provides access to the latest Samba documentation. The manual page for
+each samba component is accessible from this page as are the Samba-HOWTO-Collection (this 
+document) as well as the O'Reilly book &quot;Using Samba&quot;.
+</p><p>
+Administrators who wish to validate their samba configuration may obtain useful information
+from the man pages for the diagnostic utilities. These are available from the SWAT home page
+also. One diagnostic tool that is NOT mentioned on this page, but that is particularly
+useful is <b class="command">ethereal</b>, available from <a href="http://www.ethereal.com" target="_top">
+http://www.ethereal.com</a>.
+</p><div class="warning" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Warning</h3><p>
+SWAT can be configured to run in <span class="emphasis"><em>demo</em></span> mode. This is NOT recommended
+as it runs SWAT without authentication and with full administrative ability. ie: Allows
+changes to smb.conf as well as general operation with root privileges. The option that
+creates this ability is the <tt class="option">-a</tt> flag to swat. <span class="emphasis"><em>Do not use this in any 
+production environment.</em></span>
+</p></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006499"></a>Global Settings</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+The Globals button will expose a page that allows configuration of the global parameters
+in smb.conf. There are three levels of exposure of the parameters:
+</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>
+	<span class="emphasis"><em>Basic</em></span> - exposes common configuration options.
+	</p></li><li><p>
+	<span class="emphasis"><em>Advanced</em></span> - exposes  configuration options needed in more 
+	complex environments.
+	</p></li><li><p>
+	<span class="emphasis"><em>Developer</em></span> - exposes configuration options that only the brave
+	will want to tamper with.
+	</p></li></ul></div><p>
+To switch to other than <span class="emphasis"><em>Basic</em></span> editing ability click on either the
+<span class="emphasis"><em>Advanced</em></span> or the <span class="emphasis"><em>Developer</em></span> dial, then click the
+<span class="guibutton">Commit Changes</span> button.
+</p><p>
+After making any changes to configuration parameters make sure that you click on the 
+<span class="guibutton">Commit Changes</span> button before moving to another area otherwise
+your changes will be immediately lost.
+</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>
+SWAT has context sensitive help. To find out what each parameter is for simply click the
+<span class="guibutton">Help</span> link to the left of the configuration parameter.
+</p></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006604"></a>Share Settings</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+To affect a currently configured share, simply click on the pull down button between the
+<span class="guibutton">Choose Share</span> and the <span class="guibutton">Delete Share</span> buttons,
+select the share you wish to operate on, then to edit the settings click on the
+<span class="guibutton">Choose Share</span> button, to delete the share simply press the
+<span class="guibutton">Delete Share</span> button.
+</p><p>
+To create a new share, next to the button labelled <span class="guibutton">Create Share</span> enter
+into the text field the name of the share to be created, then click on the 
+<span class="guibutton">Create Share</span> button.
+</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006669"></a>Printers Settings</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+To affect a currently configured printer, simply click on the pull down button between the
+<span class="guibutton">Choose Printer</span> and the <span class="guibutton">Delete Printer</span> buttons,
+select the printer you wish to operate on, then to edit the settings click on the
+<span class="guibutton">Choose Printer</span> button, to delete the share simply press the
+<span class="guibutton">Delete Printer</span> button.
+</p><p>
+To create a new printer, next to the button labelled <span class="guibutton">Create Printer</span> enter
+into the text field the name of the share to be created, then click on the 
+<span class="guibutton">Create Printer</span> button.
+</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006733"></a>The SWAT Wizard</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+The purpose if the SWAT Wizard is to help the Microsoft knowledgeable network administrator
+to configure Samba with a minimum of effort.
+</p><p>
+The Wizard page provides a tool for rewriting the smb.conf file in fully optimised format.
+This will also happen if you press the commit button. The two differ in the the rewrite button
+ignores any changes that may have been made, while the Commit button causes all changes to be
+affected.
+</p><p>
+The <span class="guibutton">Edit</span> button permits the editing (setting) of the minimal set of
+options that may be necessary to create a working Samba server.
+</p><p>
+Finally, there are a limited set of options that will determine what type of server Samba
+will be configured for, whether it will be a WINS server, participate as a WINS client, or
+operate with no WINS support. By clicking on one button you can elect to expose (or not) user
+home directories.
+</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006781"></a>The Status Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+The status page serves a limited purpose. Firstly, it allows control of the samba daemons.
+The key daemons that create the samba server environment are: <span class="application">smbd</span>, <span class="application">nmbd</span>, <span class="application">winbindd</span>.
+</p><p>
+The daemons may be controlled individually or as a total group. Additionally, you may set
+an automatic screen refresh timing. As MS Windows clients interact with Samba new smbd processes
+will be continually spawned. The auto-refresh facility will allow you to track the changing
+conditions with minimal effort.
+</p><p>
+Lastly, the Status page may be used to terminate specific smbd client connections in order to
+free files that may be locked.
+</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006833"></a>The View Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+This page allows the administrator to view the optimised <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> file and, if you are
+particularly masochistic, will permit you also to see all possible global configuration
+parameters and their settings.
+</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006856"></a>The Password Change Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+The Password Change page is a popular tool. This tool allows the creation, deletion, deactivation
+and reactivation of MS Windows networking users on the local machine. Alternatively, you can use
+this tool to change a local password for a user account.
+</p><p>
+When logged in as a non-root account the user will have to provide the old password as well as
+the new password (twice). When logged in as <span class="emphasis"><em>root</em></span> only the new password is
+required.
+</p><p>
+One popular use for this tool is to change user passwords across a range of remote MS Windows
+servers.
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