pdbedit

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: pdbedit -l

sorce:500:Simo Sorce samba:45:Test User

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: pdbedit -l -v

--------------- 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

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 smbpasswd file format. (see the smbpasswd(5) for details)

Example: pdbedit -l -w

sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:[UX ]:LCT-00000000: samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:[UX ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D:

This option specifies that the username to be used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing) It is required in add, remove and modify operations and optional in list operations.

This option can be used while adding or modifing a user account. It will specify the user's full name.

Example: -f "Simo Sorce"

This option can be used while adding or modifing a user account. It will specify the user's home directory network path.

Example: -h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"

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: -d "H:"

This option can be used while adding or modifing a user account. It will specify the user's logon script path.

Example: -s "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"

This option can be used while adding or modifing a user account. It will specify the user's profile directory.

Example: -p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"

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: pdbedit -a -u sorce

new password: retype new password

This option may only be used in conjunction with the -a option. It will make pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user account (-u username will provide the machine name).

Example: pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks

This option causes pdbedit to delete an account from the database. It need the username be specified with the -u switch.

Example: pdbedit -x -u bob

Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users than the one specified in smb.conf.

This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another.

Example: pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old -e tdbsam:/etc/samba/passwd.tdb

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: pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup