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diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/pdbedit.8.html b/docs/htmldocs/pdbedit.8.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3bca3a9d6c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/htmldocs/pdbedit.8.html @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>pdbedit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="pdbedit.8"></a><div class="titlepage"><div></div><div></div></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>pdbedit — manage the SAM database</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><tt class="command">pdbedit</tt> [-L] [-v] [-w] [-u username] [-f fullname] [-h homedir] [-D drive] [-S script] [-p profile] [-a] [-m] [-r] [-x] [-i passdb-backend] [-e passdb-backend] [-b passdb-backend] [-g] [-d debuglevel] [-s configfile] [-P account-policy] [-C value] [-c account-control]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a href="Samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">Samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts + stored in the sam database and can only be run by root.</p><p>The pdbedit tool uses 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 added + without changing the tool).</p><p>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.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-L</span></dt><dd><p>This option lists all the user accounts + present in the users database. + This option prints a list of user/uid pairs separated by + the ':' character.</p><p>Example: <b class="command">pdbedit -L</b></p><pre class="screen"> +sorce:500:Simo Sorce +samba:45:Test User +</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-v</span></dt><dd><p>This option enables the verbose listing format. + It causes pdbedit to list the users in the database, printing + out the account fields in a descriptive format.</p><p>Example: <b class="command">pdbedit -L -v</b></p><pre class="screen"> +--------------- +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 +</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-w</span></dt><dd><p>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 + <tt class="filename">smbpasswd</tt> file format. (see the + <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbpasswd</span>(5)</span></a> for details)</p><p>Example: <b class="command">pdbedit -L -w</b></p><pre class="screen"> +sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:[UX ]:LCT-00000000: +samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:[UX ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D: +</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-u username</span></dt><dd><p>This option specifies the username to be + used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing). + It is <span class="emphasis"><em>required</em></span> in add, remove and modify + operations and <span class="emphasis"><em>optional</em></span> in list + operations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-f fullname</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or + modifing a user account. It will specify the user's full + name. </p><p>Example: <b class="command">-f "Simo Sorce"</b></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-h homedir</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or + modifing a user account. It will specify the user's home + directory network path.</p><p>Example: <b class="command">-h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"</b> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-D drive</span></dt><dd><p>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.</p><p>Example: <b class="command">-d "H:"</b> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-S script</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or + modifing a user account. It will specify the user's logon + script path.</p><p>Example: <b class="command">-s "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"</b> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-p profile</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or + modifing a user account. It will specify the user's profile + directory.</p><p>Example: <b class="command">-p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"</b> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-G SID|rid</span></dt><dd><p> + This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account. It + will specify the users' new primary group SID (Security Identifier) or + rid. </p><p>Example: <b class="command">-G S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-1201</b></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-U SID|rid</span></dt><dd><p> + This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account. It + will specify the users' new SID (Security Identifier) or + rid. </p><p>Example: <b class="command">-U S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-5004</b></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-c account-control</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or modifying a user + account. It will specify the users' account control property. Possible + flags that can be set are: N, D, H, L, X. + </p><p>Example: <b class="command">-c "[X ]"</b></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-a</span></dt><dd><p>This option is used to add a user into the + database. This command needs a user name specified with + the -u switch. When adding a new user, pdbedit will also + ask for the password to be used.</p><p>Example: <b class="command">pdbedit -a -u sorce</b> +</p><pre class="programlisting">new password: +retype new password +</pre><p> +</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-r</span></dt><dd><p>This option is used to modify an existing user + in the database. This command needs a user name specified with the -u + switch. Other options can be specified to modify the properties of + the specified user. This flag is kept for backwards compatibility, but + it is no longer necessary to specify it. + </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-m</span></dt><dd><p>This option may only be used in conjunction + with the <i class="parameter"><tt>-a</tt></i> option. It will make + pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user + account (-u username will provide the machine name).</p><p>Example: <b class="command">pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks</b> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-x</span></dt><dd><p>This option causes pdbedit to delete an account + from the database. It needs a username specified with the + -u switch.</p><p>Example: <b class="command">pdbedit -x -u bob</b></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-i passdb-backend</span></dt><dd><p>Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users + than the one specified in smb.conf. Can be used to import data into + your local user database.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to + another.</p><p>Example: <b class="command">pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old + </b></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-e passdb-backend</span></dt><dd><p>Exports all currently available users to the + specified password database backend.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to + another and will ease backing up.</p><p>Example: <b class="command">pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup</b></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-g</span></dt><dd><p>If you specify <i class="parameter"><tt>-g</tt></i>, + then <i class="parameter"><tt>-i in-backend -e out-backend</tt></i> + applies to the group mapping instead of the user database.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to + another and will ease backing up.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-b passdb-backend</span></dt><dd><p>Use a different default passdb backend. </p><p>Example: <b class="command">pdbedit -b xml:/root/pdb-backup.xml -l</b></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-P account-policy</span></dt><dd><p>Display an account policy</p><p>Valid policies are: minimum password age, reset count minutes, disconnect time, + user must logon to change password, password history, lockout duration, min password length, + maximum password age and bad lockout attempt.</p><p>Example: <b class="command">pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"</b></p><pre class="programlisting"> +account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0 +</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-C account-policy-value</span></dt><dd><p>Sets an account policy to a specified value. + This option may only be used in conjunction + with the <i class="parameter"><tt>-P</tt></i> option. + </p><p>Example: <b class="command">pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3</b></p><pre class="programlisting"> +account policy value for bad lockout attempt was 0 +account policy value for bad lockout attempt is now 3 +</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-h|--help</span></dt><dd><p>Print a summary of command line options. +</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-V</span></dt><dd><p>Prints the program version number. +</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s <configuration file></span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the +configuration details required by the server. The +information in this file includes server-specific +information such as what printcap file to use, as well +as descriptions of all the services that the server is +to provide. See <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> for more information. +The default configuration file name is determined at +compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debug=debuglevel</span></dt><dd><p><i class="replaceable"><tt>debuglevel</tt></i> is an integer +from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is +not specified is zero.</p><p>The higher this value, the more detail will be +logged to the log files about the activities of the +server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious +warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for +day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of +information about operations carried out.</p><p>Levels above 1 will generate considerable +amounts of log data, and should only be used when +investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for +use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log +data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</p><p>Note that specifying this parameter here will +override the <a class="indexterm" name="id2799524"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>log level</tt></i> parameter +in the <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l|--logfile=logbasename</span></dt><dd><p>File name for log/debug files. The extension +<tt class="constant">".client"</tt> will be appended. The log file is +never removed by the client. +</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>NOTES</h2><p>This command may be used only by root.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of + the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbpasswd</span>(5)</span></a>, <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a></p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>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.</p></div></div></body></html> |