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diff --git a/docs/manpages/pdbedit.8 b/docs/manpages/pdbedit.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4f836eb758 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/manpages/pdbedit.8 @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man-spec +.\" from a DocBook document. docbook2man-spec can be found at: +.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/hacks/docbook2X/> +.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, +.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>. +.TH "PDBEDIT" "8" "04 January 2002" "" "" +.SH NAME +pdbedit \- manage the SAM database +.SH SYNOPSIS +.sp +\fBpdbedit\fR [ \fB-l\fR ] [ \fB-v\fR ] [ \fB-w\fR ] [ \fB-u username\fR ] [ \fB-f fullname\fR ] [ \fB-h homedir\fR ] [ \fB-d drive\fR ] [ \fB-s script\fR ] [ \fB-p profile\fR ] [ \fB-a\fR ] [ \fB-m\fR ] [ \fB-x\fR ] [ \fB-i file\fR ] +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +This tool is part of the Sambasuite. +.PP +The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts +stored in the sam database and can be run only by root. +.PP +The pdbedit tool use the passdb modular interface and is +independent from the kind of users database used (currently there +are smbpasswd, ldap, nis+ and tdb based and more can be addedd +without changing the tool). +.PP +There are five main ways to use pdbedit: adding a user account, +removing a user account, modifing a user account, listing user +accounts, importing users accounts. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.TP +\fB-l\fR +This option list all the user accounts +present in the users database. +This option prints a list of user/uid pairs separated by +the ':' character. + +Example: \fBpdbedit -l\fR + +.sp +.nf + sorce:500:Simo Sorce + samba:45:Test User + +.sp +.fi +.TP +\fB-v\fR +This option sets the verbose listing format. +It will make pdbedit list the users in the database printing +out the account fields in a descriptive format. + +Example: \fBpdbedit -l -v\fR + +.sp +.nf + --------------- + username: sorce + user ID/Group: 500/500 + user RID/GRID: 2000/2001 + Full Name: Simo Sorce + Home Directory: \\\\BERSERKER\\sorce + HomeDir Drive: H: + Logon Script: \\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat + Profile Path: \\\\BERSERKER\\profile + --------------- + username: samba + user ID/Group: 45/45 + user RID/GRID: 1090/1091 + Full Name: Test User + Home Directory: \\\\BERSERKER\\samba + HomeDir Drive: + Logon Script: + Profile Path: \\\\BERSERKER\\profile + +.sp +.fi +.TP +\fB-w\fR +This option sets the "smbpasswd" listing format. +It will make pdbedit list the users in the database printing +out the account fields in a format compatible with the +\fIsmbpasswd\fR file format. (see the \fIsmbpasswd(5)\fRfor details) + +Example: \fBpdbedit -l -w\fR + +.sp +.nf + sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:[UX ]:LCT-00000000: + samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:[UX ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D: + +.sp +.fi +.TP +\fB-u username\fR +This option specifies that the username to be +used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing) +It is \fBrequired\fR in add, remove and modify +operations and \fBoptional\fR in list +operations. +.TP +\fB-f fullname\fR +This option can be used while adding or +modifing a user account. It will specify the user's full +name. + +Example: \fB-f "Simo Sorce"\fR +.TP +\fB-h homedir\fR +This option can be used while adding or +modifing a user account. It will specify the user's home +directory network path. + +Example: \fB-h "\\\\\\\\BERSERKER\\\\sorce"\fR +.TP +\fB-d drive\fR +This option can be used while adding or +modifing a user account. It will specify the windows drive +letter to be used to map the home directory. + +Example: \fB-d "H:"\fR +.TP +\fB-s script\fR +This option can be used while adding or +modifing a user account. It will specify the user's logon +script path. + +Example: \fB-s "\\\\\\\\BERSERKER\\\\netlogon\\\\sorce.bat"\fR +.TP +\fB-p profile\fR +This option can be used while adding or +modifing a user account. It will specify the user's profile +directory. + +Example: \fB-p "\\\\\\\\BERSERKER\\\\netlogon"\fR +.TP +\fB-a\fR +This option is used to add a user into the +database. This command need the user name be specified with +the -u switch. When adding a new user pdbedit will also +ask for the password to be used + +Example: \fBpdbedit -a -u sorce\fR +.sp +.nf +new password: + retype new password +.sp +.fi +.TP +\fB-m\fR +This option may only be used in conjunction +with the \fI-a\fR option. It will make +pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user +account (-u username will provide the machine name). + +Example: \fBpdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks\fR +.TP +\fB-x\fR +This option causes pdbedit to delete an account +from the database. It need the username be specified with the +-u switch. + +Example: \fBpdbedit -x -u bob\fR +.TP +\fB-i file\fR +This command is used to import a smbpasswd +file into the database. + +This option will ease migration from the plain smbpasswd +file database to more powerful backend databases like tdb and +ldap. + +Example: \fBpdbedit -i /etc/smbpasswd.old\fR +.SH "NOTES" +.PP +This command may be used only by root. +.SH "VERSION" +.PP +This man page is correct for version 2.2 of +the Samba suite. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.PP +smbpasswd(8), +samba(7) +.SH "AUTHOR" +.PP +The original Samba software and related utilities +were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed +by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar +to the way the Linux kernel is developed. +.PP +The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. +The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another +excellent piece of Open Source software, available at +ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 +release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for +Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter |