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-rw-r--r--examples/pdb/README6
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diff --git a/examples/README b/examples/README
index ba47cf912f..3e11ed4ad8 100644
--- a/examples/README
+++ b/examples/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Copyright(C) Samba-Team 1993-1997
-This directory contains example config files and related material for
-Samba.
+This directory contains example samba extensions, example config files and
+related material for Samba.
At a minimum please refer to the smb.conf.default file for current
information regarding global and share parameter settings.
diff --git a/examples/pdb/README b/examples/pdb/README
index ccc39248aa..9ca03bf593 100644
--- a/examples/pdb/README
+++ b/examples/pdb/README
@@ -7,3 +7,9 @@ a pdb plugin. It just prints the name of the function that is executed using
DEBUG. Maybe it's nice to include some of the arguments to the function in the
future too..
+To debug passdb backends, try to run gdb on the 'pdbedit' executable. That's really much easier than restarting smbd constantly and attaching with your debugger.
+
+New passdb plugins should go into the samba lib directory, (/usr/lib/samba/ for
+most distributions) and should be prefixed with 'pdb_'. An example would be:
+/usr/lib/samba/pdb_test.so
+