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diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.8.html b/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.8.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b93fbd595f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.8.html @@ -0,0 +1,270 @@ + + + + + +<html><head><title>smbpasswd</title> + +<link rev="made" href="mailto:samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au"> +</head> +<body> + +<hr> + +<h1>smbpasswd</h1> +<h2>Samba</h2> +<h2>23 Oct 1998</h2> + + + + +<p><br><a name="NAME"></a> +<h2>NAME</h2> + smbpasswd - change a users SMB password +<p><br><a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> +<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> + +<p><br><strong>smbpasswd</strong> [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusa">-a</a>] [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusd">-d</a>] [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minuse">-e</a>] [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusD">-D debug level</a>] [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusn">-n</a>] [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusr">-r remote_machine</a>] [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusR">-R name resolve order</a>] [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusm">-m</a>] [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusj">-j DOMAIN</a>] [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusU">-U username</a>] [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minush">-h</a>] [<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minuss">-s</a>] <a href="smbpasswd.8.html#username">username</a> +<p><br><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> +<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> + +<p><br>This program is part of the <strong>Samba</strong> suite. +<p><br>The <strong>smbpasswd</strong> program has several different functions, depending +on whether it is run by the <em>root</em> user or not. When run as a normal +user it allows the user to change the password used for their SMB +sessions on any machines that store SMB passwords. +<p><br>By default (when run with no arguments) it will attempt to change the +current users SMB password on the local machine. This is similar to +the way the <strong>passwd (1)</strong> program works. <strong>smbpasswd</strong> differs from +the <strong>passwd</strong> program works however in that it is not <em>setuid root</em> +but works in a client-server mode and communicates with a locally +running <a href="smbd.8.html"><strong>smbd</strong></a>. As a consequence in order for this +to succeed the <a href="smbd.8.html"><strong>smbd</strong></a> daemon must be running on +the local machine. On a UNIX machine the encrypted SMB passwords are +usually stored in the <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd (5)</strong></a> file. +<p><br>When run by an ordinary user with no options. <strong>smbpasswd</strong> will +prompt them for their old smb password and then ask them for their new +password twice, to ensure that the new password was typed +correctly. No passwords will be echoed on the screen whilst being +typed. If you have a blank smb password (specified by the string "NO +PASSWORD" in the <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file) then just +press the <Enter> key when asked for your old password. +<p><br><strong>smbpasswd</strong> also can be used by a normal user to change their SMB +password on remote machines, such as Windows NT Primary Domain +Controllers. See the <a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusr">(<strong>-r</strong>)</a> and +<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusU"><strong>-U</strong></a> options below. +<p><br>When run by root, <strong>smbpasswd</strong> allows new users to be added and +deleted in the <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file, as well as +changes to the attributes of the user in this file to be made. When +run by root, <strong>smbpasswd</strong> accesses the local +<a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file directly, thus enabling +changes to be made even if <a href="smbd.8.html"><strong>smbd</strong></a> is not running. +<p><br><a name="OPTIONS"></a> +<h2>OPTIONS</h2> + +<p><br><ul> +<p><br><a name="minusa"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-a</strong></strong> This option specifies that the username following should +be added to the local <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file, with +the new password typed (type <Enter> for the old password). This +option is ignored if the username following already exists in the +<a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file and it is treated like a +regular change password command. Note that the user to be added .B +must already exist in the system password file (usually /etc/passwd) +else the request to add the user will fail. +<p><br>This option is only available when running <strong>smbpasswd</strong> as +root. +<p><br><a name="minusd"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-d</strong></strong> This option specifies that the username following should be +<em>disabled</em> in the local <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file. +This is done by writing a <em>'D'</em> flag into the account control space +in the <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file. Once this is done +all attempts to authenticate via SMB using this username will fail. +<p><br>If the <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file is in the 'old' +format (pre-Samba 2.0 format) there is no space in the users password +entry to write this information and so the user is disabled by writing +'X' characters into the password space in the +<a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file. See <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd +(5)</strong></a> for details on the 'old' and new password file +formats. +<p><br>This option is only available when running <strong>smbpasswd</strong> as root. +<p><br><a name="minuse"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-e</strong></strong> This option specifies that the username following should be +<em>enabled</em> in the local <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file, +if the account was previously disabled. If the account was not +disabled this option has no effect. Once the account is enabled +then the user will be able to authenticate via SMB once again. +<p><br>If the smbpasswd file is in the 'old' format then <strong>smbpasswd</strong> will +prompt for a new password for this user, otherwise the account will be +enabled by removing the <em>'D'</em> flag from account control space in the +<a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file. See <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd +(5)</strong></a> for details on the 'old' and new password file +formats. +<p><br>This option is only available when running <strong>smbpasswd</strong> as root. +<p><br><a name="minusD"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-D debuglevel</strong></strong> debuglevel is an integer from 0 +to 10. The default value if this parameter is not specified is zero. +<p><br>The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log files +about the activities of smbpasswd. At level 0, only critical errors +and serious warnings will be logged. +<p><br>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><br><a name="minusn"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-n</strong></strong> This option specifies that the username following should +have their password set to null (i.e. a blank password) in the local +<a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file. This is done by writing the +string "NO PASSWORD" as the first part of the first password stored in +the <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file. +<p><br>Note that to allow users to logon to a Samba server once the password +has been set to "NO PASSWORD" in the +<a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file the administrator must set +the following parameter in the [global] section of the +<a href="smb.conf.5.html"><strong>smb.conf</strong></a> file : +<p><br><a href="smb.conf.5.html#nullpasswords">null passwords = true</a> +<p><br>This option is only available when running <strong>smbpasswd</strong> as root. +<p><br><a name="minusr"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-r remote machine name</strong></strong> This option allows a +user to specify what machine they wish to change their password +on. Without this parameter <strong>smbpasswd</strong> defaults to the local +host. The <em>"remote machine name"</em> is the NetBIOS name of the +SMB/CIFS server to contact to attempt the password change. This name +is resolved into an IP address using the standard name resolution +mechanism in all programs of the <a href="samba.7.html"><strong>Samba</strong></a> +suite. See the <a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusR"><strong>-R name resolve order</strong></a> parameter for details on changing this resolving +mechanism. +<p><br>The username whose password is changed is that of the current UNIX +logged on user. See the <a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusU"><strong>-U username</strong></a> +parameter for details on changing the password for a different +username. +<p><br>Note that if changing a Windows NT Domain password the remote machine +specified must be the Primary Domain Controller for the domain (Backup +Domain Controllers only have a read-only copy of the user account +database and will not allow the password change). +<p><br><a name="minusR"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-R name resolve order</strong></strong> This option allows the user of +smbclient to determine what name resolution services to use when +looking up the NetBIOS name of the host being connected to. +<p><br>The options are :<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#lmhosts">"lmhosts"</a>, <a href="smbpasswd.8.html#host">"host"</a>, +<a href="smbpasswd.8.html#wins">"wins"</a> and <a href="smbpasswd.8.html#bcast">"bcast"</a>. They cause names to be +resolved as follows : +<p><br><ul> +<p><br><a name="lmhosts"></a> +<li > <strong>lmhosts</strong> : Lookup an IP address in the Samba lmhosts file. +<p><br><a name="host"></a> +<li > <strong>host</strong> : Do a standard host name to IP address resolution, +using the system /etc/hosts, NIS, or DNS lookups. This method of name +resolution is operating system depended for instance on IRIX or +Solaris this may be controlled by the <em>/etc/nsswitch.conf</em> file). +<p><br><a name="wins"></a> +<li > <strong>wins</strong> : Query a name with the IP address listed in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html#winsserver"><strong>wins +server</strong></a> parameter in the smb.conf file. If +no WINS server has been specified this method will be ignored. +<p><br><a name="bcast"></a> +<li > <strong>bcast</strong> : Do a broadcast on each of the known local interfaces +listed in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html#interfaces"><strong>interfaces</strong></a> parameter +in the smb.conf file. This is the least reliable of the name resolution +methods as it depends on the target host being on a locally connected +subnet. +<p><br></ul> +<p><br>If this parameter is not set then the name resolver order defined +in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><strong>smb.conf</strong></a> file parameter +<a href="smb.conf.5.html#nameresolveorder"><strong>name resolve order</strong></a> +will be used. +<p><br>The default order is lmhosts, host, wins, bcast and without this +parameter or any entry in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><strong>smb.conf</strong></a> +file the name resolution methods will be attempted in this order. +<p><br><a name="minusm"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-m</strong></strong> This option tells <strong>smbpasswd</strong> that the account being +changed is a <em>MACHINE</em> account. Currently this is used when Samba is +being used as an NT Primary Domain Controller. PDC support is not a +supported feature in Samba2.0 but will become supported in a later +release. If you wish to know more about using Samba as an NT PDC then +please subscribe to the mailing list +<a href="mailto:samba-ntdom@samba.anu.edu.au"><em>samba-ntdom@samba.anu.edu.au</em></a>. +<p><br>This option is only available when running <strong>smbpasswd</strong> as root. +<p><br><a name="minusj"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-j DOMAIN</strong></strong> This option is used to add a Samba server into a +Windows NT Domain, as a Domain member capable of authenticating user +accounts to any Domain Controller in the same way as a Windows NT +Server. See the <a href="smb.conf.5.html#security"><strong>security=domain</strong></a> +option in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><strong>smb.conf (5)</strong></a> man page. +<p><br>In order to be used in this way, the Administrator for the Windows +NT Domain must have used the program <em>"Server Manager for Domains"</em> +to add the <a href="smb.conf.5.html#netbiosname">primary NetBIOS name</a> of +the Samba server as a member of the Domain. +<p><br>After this has been done, to join the Domain invoke <strong>smbpasswd</strong> with +this parameter. <strong>smbpasswd</strong> will then look up the Primary Domain +Controller for the Domain (found in the +<a href="smb.conf.5.html"><strong>smb.conf</strong></a> file in the parameter +<a href="smb.conf.5.html#passwordserver"><strong>password server</strong></a> and change +the machine account password used to create the secure Domain +communication. This password is then stored by <strong>smbpasswd</strong> in a +file, read only by root, called <code><Domain>.<Machine>.mac</code> where +<code><Domain></code> is the name of the Domain we are joining and tt<Machine> +is the primary NetBIOS name of the machine we are running on. +<p><br>Once this operation has been performed the +<a href="smb.conf.5.html"><strong>smb.conf</strong></a> file may be updated to set the +<a href="smb.conf.5.html#security"><strong>security=domain</strong></a> option and all +future logins to the Samba server will be authenticated to the Windows +NT PDC. +<p><br>Note that even though the authentication is being done to the PDC all +users accessing the Samba server must still have a valid UNIX account +on that machine. +<p><br>This option is only available when running <strong>smbpasswd</strong> as root. +<p><br><a name="minusU"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-U username</strong></strong> This option may only be used in +conjunction with the <a href="smbpasswd.8.html#minusr"><strong>-r</strong></a> +option. When changing a password on a remote machine it allows the +user to specify the user name on that machine whose password will be +changed. It is present to allow users who have different user names on +different systems to change these passwords. +<p><br><a name="minush"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-h</strong></strong> This option prints the help string for <strong>smbpasswd</strong>, +selecting the correct one for running as root or as an ordinary user. +<p><br><a name="minuss"></a> +<li><strong><strong>-s</strong></strong> This option causes <strong>smbpasswd</strong> to be silent (ie. not +issue prompts) and to read it's old and new passwords from standard +input, rather than from <code>/dev/tty</code> (like the <strong>passwd (1)</strong> program +does). This option is to aid people writing scripts to drive <strong>smbpasswd</strong> +<p><br><a name="username"></a> +dir(<strong>username</strong>) This specifies the username for all of the <em>root +only</em> options to operate on. Only root can specify this parameter as +only root has the permission needed to modify attributes directly +in the local <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a> file. +<p><br><a name="NOTES"></a> +<h2>NOTES</h2> + +<p><br>As <strong>smbpasswd</strong> works in client-server mode communicating with a +local <a href="smbd.8.html"><strong>smbd</strong></a> for a non-root user then the <strong>smbd</strong> +daemon must be running for this to work. A common problem is to add a +restriction to the hosts that may access the <strong>smbd</strong> running on the +local machine by specifying a <a href="smb.conf.5.html#allowhosts"><strong>"allow +hosts"</strong></a> or <a href="smb.conf.5.html#denyhosts"><strong>"deny +hosts"</strong></a> entry in the +<a href="smb.conf.5.html"><strong>smb.conf</strong></a> file and neglecting to allow +<em>"localhost"</em> access to the <strong>smbd</strong>. +<p><br>In addition, the <strong>smbpasswd</strong> command is only useful if <strong>Samba</strong> has +been set up to use encrypted passwords. See the file <strong>ENCRYPTION.txt</strong> +in the docs directory for details on how to do this. +<p><br><a name="VERSION"></a> +<h2>VERSION</h2> + +<p><br>This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite. +<p><br><a name="AUTHOR"></a> +<h2>AUTHOR</h2> + +<p><br>The original Samba software and related utilities were created by +Andrew Tridgell <a href="mailto:samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au"><em>samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au</em></a>. Samba is now developed +by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the +Linux kernel is developed. +<p><br>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) and updated for the Samba2.0 release by Jeremy +Allison, <a href="mailto:samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au"><em>samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au</em></a>. +<p><br>See <a href="samba.7.html"><strong>samba (7)</strong></a> to find out how to get a full +list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports, +comments etc. +</body> +</html> |