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diff --git a/docs/manpages/pdbedit.8 b/docs/manpages/pdbedit.8 index 7a8661c30b..e2f5531d5d 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/pdbedit.8 +++ b/docs/manpages/pdbedit.8 @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ .\" <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" "28 January 2002" "" "" +.TH "PDBEDIT" "8" "24 April 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 ] +\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 passdb-backend\fR ] [ \fB-e passdb-backend\fR ] [ \fB-D debuglevel\fR ] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP This tool is part of the Sambasuite. @@ -160,15 +160,19 @@ from the database. It need the username be specified with the Example: \fBpdbedit -x -u bob\fR .TP -\fB-i file\fR -This command is used to import a smbpasswd -file into the database. +\fB-i passdb-backend\fR +Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users than the one specified in smb.conf. -This option will ease migration from the plain smbpasswd -file database to more powerful backend databases like tdb and -ldap. +This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another. -Example: \fBpdbedit -i /etc/smbpasswd.old\fR +Example: \fBpdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old -e tdbsam:/etc/samba/passwd.tdb\fR +.TP +\fB-e passdb-backend\fR +Export all currently available users to the specified password database backend. + +This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another and will ease backupping + +Example: \fBpdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup\fR .SH "NOTES" .PP This command may be used only by root. |