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<refmeta>
	<refentrytitle>pdbedit</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</refmeta>


<refnamediv>
	<refname>pdbedit</refname>
	<refpurpose>manage the SAM database</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
	<cmdsynopsis>
		<command>pdbedit</command>
		<arg choice="opt">-l</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-v</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-w</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-u username</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-f fullname</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-h homedir</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-D drive</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-S script</arg>
		<arg choice="opt">-p profile</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-a</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-m</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-x</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-i passdb-backend</arg>	
		<arg choice="opt">-e passdb-backend</arg>   
		<arg choice="opt">-b passdb-backend</arg>
		<arg choice="opt">-d debuglevel</arg>
		<arg choice="opt">-s configfile</arg>
		<arg choice="opt">-P account-policy</arg>
		<arg choice="opt">-C value</arg>
	</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1>
	<title>DESCRIPTION</title>

	<para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>Samba</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>

	<para>The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts
	stored in the sam database and can only be run by root.</para>

	<para>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).</para>

	<para>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.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>OPTIONS</title>
	<variablelist>
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-l</term>
		<listitem><para>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.</para>
		<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -l</command></para>
		<para><screen>
sorce:500:Simo Sorce
samba:45:Test User
</screen></para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-v</term>
		<listitem><para>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.</para>

		<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -l -v</command></para>
		<para><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
</screen></para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-w</term>
		<listitem><para>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
		<filename>smbpasswd</filename> file format. (see the
		<citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbpasswd</refentrytitle>
		<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for details)</para>

		<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -l -w</command></para>
		<screen>
sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:[UX         ]:LCT-00000000:
samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:[UX         ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D:
</screen>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-u username</term>
		<listitem><para>This option specifies the username to be
		used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing).
		It is <emphasis>required</emphasis> in add, remove and modify
		operations and <emphasis>optional</emphasis> in list
		operations.</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term>-f fullname</term>
		<listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
		modifing a user account. It will specify the user's full
		name. </para>

		<para>Example: <command>-f "Simo Sorce"</command></para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-h homedir</term>
		<listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
		modifing a user account. It will specify the user's home
		directory network path.</para>

		<para>Example: <command>-h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"</command>
		</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-D drive</term>
		<listitem><para>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.</para>

		<para>Example: <command>-d "H:"</command>
		</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-S script</term>
		<listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
		modifing a user account. It will specify the user's logon
		script path.</para>

		<para>Example: <command>-s "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"</command>
		</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-p profile</term>
		<listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
		modifing a user account. It will specify the user's profile
		directory.</para>

		<para>Example: <command>-p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"</command>
		</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-a</term>
		<listitem><para>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.</para>

		<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -a -u sorce</command>
<programlisting>new password:
retype new password
</programlisting>
</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-m</term>
		<listitem><para>This option may only be used in conjunction 
		with the <parameter>-a</parameter> option. It will make
		pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user
		account (-u username will provide the machine name).</para>

		<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks</command>
		</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-x</term>
		<listitem><para>This option causes pdbedit to delete an account
		from the database. It needs a username specified with the
		-u switch.</para>

		<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -x -u bob</command></para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		

		<varlistentry>
		<term>-i passdb-backend</term>
		<listitem><para>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.</para>

		<para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
		another.</para>

		<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old
                </command></para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term>-e passdb-backend</term>
		<listitem><para>Exports all currently available users to the
		specified password database backend.</para>

		<para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
		another and will ease backing up.</para>
		
		<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup</command></para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term>-b passdb-backend</term>
		<listitem><para>Use a different default passdb backend. </para>

		<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -b xml:/root/pdb-backup.xml -l</command></para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term>-P account-policy</term>
		<listitem><para>Display an account policy</para>
		<para>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.</para>

		<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"</command></para>
<para><programlisting>
account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0
</programlisting></para>

		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term>-C account-policy-value</term>
		<listitem><para>Sets an account policy to a specified value. 
		This option may only be used in conjunction
		with the <parameter>-P</parameter> option.
		</para>

		<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3</command></para>
<para><programlisting>
account policy value for bad lockout attempt was 0
account policy value for bad lockout attempt is now 3
</programlisting></para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		&stdarg.debuglevel;
		&stdarg.help;
		&stdarg.configfile;

	</variablelist>
</refsect1>


<refsect1>
	<title>NOTES</title>
	
	<para>This command may be used only by root.</para>
</refsect1>


<refsect1>
	<title>VERSION</title>

	<para>This man page is correct for version 2.2 of 
	the Samba suite.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>SEE ALSO</title>
	<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbpasswd</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>AUTHOR</title>
	
	<para>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.</para>
	
	<para>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, available at <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
	ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 
	release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for 
	Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook
	XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>
</refsect1>

</refentry>