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><HEAD
><TITLE
>pdbedit</TITLE
><META
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><BODY
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><H1
><A
NAME="PDBEDIT.8"
></A
>pdbedit</H1
><DIV
CLASS="REFNAMEDIV"
><A
NAME="AEN5"
></A
><H2
>Name</H2
>pdbedit -- manage the SAM database</DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV"
><A
NAME="AEN8"
></A
><H2
>Synopsis</H2
><P
><B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit</B
> [-l] [-v] [-w] [-u username] [-f fullname] [-h homedir] [-D drive] [-S script] [-p profile] [-a] [-m] [-x] [-i passdb-backend] [-e passdb-backend] [-g] [-b passdb-backend] [-g] [-d debuglevel] [-s configfile] [-P account-policy] [-C value]</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN32"
></A
><H2
>DESCRIPTION</H2
><P
>This tool is part of the <SPAN
CLASS="CITEREFENTRY"
><SPAN
CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE"
>Samba</SPAN
>(7)</SPAN
> suite.</P
><P
>The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts
stored in the sam database and can only be run by root.</P
><P
>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).</P
><P
>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.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN41"
></A
><H2
>OPTIONS</H2
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
>-l</DT
><DD
><P
>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.</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit -l</B
></P
><P
><PRE
CLASS="SCREEN"
>sorce:500:Simo Sorce
samba:45:Test User</PRE
></P
></DD
><DT
>-v</DT
><DD
><P
>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.</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit -l -v</B
></P
><P
><PRE
CLASS="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</PRE
></P
></DD
><DT
>-w</DT
><DD
><P
>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
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>smbpasswd</TT
> file format. (see the
<SPAN
CLASS="CITEREFENTRY"
><SPAN
CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE"
>smbpasswd</SPAN
>(5)</SPAN
> for details)</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit -l -w</B
></P
><PRE
CLASS="SCREEN"
>sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:[UX ]:LCT-00000000:
samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:[UX ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D:</PRE
></DD
><DT
>-u username</DT
><DD
><P
>This option specifies the username to be
used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing).
It is <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>required</I
></SPAN
> in add, remove and modify
operations and <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>optional</I
></SPAN
> in list
operations.</P
></DD
><DT
>-f fullname</DT
><DD
><P
>This option can be used while adding or
modifing a user account. It will specify the user's full
name. </P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>-f "Simo Sorce"</B
></P
></DD
><DT
>-h homedir</DT
><DD
><P
>This option can be used while adding or
modifing a user account. It will specify the user's home
directory network path.</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>-h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"</B
>
</P
></DD
><DT
>-D drive</DT
><DD
><P
>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.</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>-d "H:"</B
>
</P
></DD
><DT
>-S script</DT
><DD
><P
>This option can be used while adding or
modifing a user account. It will specify the user's logon
script path.</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>-s "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"</B
>
</P
></DD
><DT
>-p profile</DT
><DD
><P
>This option can be used while adding or
modifing a user account. It will specify the user's profile
directory.</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>-p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"</B
>
</P
></DD
><DT
>-a</DT
><DD
><P
>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.</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit -a -u sorce</B
>
<PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>new password:
retype new password</PRE
></P
></DD
><DT
>-m</DT
><DD
><P
>This option may only be used in conjunction
with the <VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>-a</VAR
> option. It will make
pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user
account (-u username will provide the machine name).</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks</B
>
</P
></DD
><DT
>-x</DT
><DD
><P
>This option causes pdbedit to delete an account
from the database. It needs a username specified with the
-u switch.</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit -x -u bob</B
></P
></DD
><DT
>-i passdb-backend</DT
><DD
><P
>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.</P
><P
>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
another.</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old
</B
></P
></DD
><DT
>-e passdb-backend</DT
><DD
><P
>Exports all currently available users to the
specified password database backend.</P
><P
>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
another and will ease backing up.</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup</B
></P
></DD
><DT
>-g</DT
><DD
><P
>If you specify <VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>-g</VAR
>,
then <VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>-i in-backend -e out-backend</VAR
>
applies to the group mapping instead of the user database.
</P
><P
>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
another and will ease backing up.</P
></DD
><DT
>-g</DT
><DD
><P
>If you specify <VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>-g</VAR
>,
then <VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>-i in-backend -e out-backend</VAR
>
applies to the group mapping instead of the user database.
</P
><P
>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
another and will ease backing up.</P
></DD
><DT
>-b passdb-backend</DT
><DD
><P
>Use a different default passdb backend. </P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit -b xml:/root/pdb-backup.xml -l</B
></P
></DD
><DT
>-P account-policy</DT
><DD
><P
>Display an account policy</P
><P
>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.</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"</B
></P
><P
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0</PRE
></P
></DD
><DT
>-C account-policy-value</DT
><DD
><P
>Sets an account policy to a specified value.
This option may only be used in conjunction
with the <VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>-P</VAR
> option.
</P
><P
>Example: <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3</B
></P
><P
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>account policy value for bad lockout attempt was 0
account policy value for bad lockout attempt is now 3</PRE
></P
></DD
><DT
>-h|--help</DT
><DD
><P
>Print a summary of command line options.</P
></DD
><DT
>-V</DT
><DD
><P
>Prints the version number for
<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>smbd</B
>.</P
></DD
><DT
>-s <configuration file></DT
><DD
><P
>The file specified contains the
configuration details required by the server. The
information in this file includes server-specific
information such as what printcap file to use, as well
as descriptions of all the services that the server is
to provide. See <A
HREF="smb.conf.5.html"
TARGET="_top"
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>smb.conf(5)</TT
></A
> for more information.
The default configuration file name is determined at
compile time.</P
></DD
><DT
>-d|--debug=debuglevel</DT
><DD
><P
><VAR
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
>debuglevel</VAR
> is an integer
from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is
not specified is zero.</P
><P
>The higher this value, the more detail will be
logged to the log files about the activities of the
server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious
warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for
day to day running - it generates a small amount of
information about operations carried out.</P
><P
>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
><P
>Note that specifying this parameter here will
override the <A
HREF="smb.conf.5.html#loglevel"
TARGET="_top"
>log
level</A
> parameter in the <A
HREF="smb.conf.5.html"
TARGET="_top"
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>smb.conf(5)</TT
></A
> file.</P
></DD
><DT
>-l|--logfile=logbasename</DT
><DD
><P
>File name for log/debug files. The extension
<CODE
CLASS="CONSTANT"
>".client"</CODE
> will be appended. The log file is
never removed by the client.</P
></DD
></DL
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN210"
></A
><H2
>NOTES</H2
><P
>This command may be used only by root.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN213"
></A
><H2
>VERSION</H2
><P
>This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
the Samba suite.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN216"
></A
><H2
>SEE ALSO</H2
><P
><SPAN
CLASS="CITEREFENTRY"
><SPAN
CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE"
>smbpasswd</SPAN
>(5)</SPAN
>, <SPAN
CLASS="CITEREFENTRY"
><SPAN
CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE"
>samba</SPAN
>(7)</SPAN
></P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN225"
></A
><H2
>AUTHOR</H2
><P
>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.</P
><P
>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 <A
HREF="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"
TARGET="_top"
> ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</A
>) 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.</P
></DIV
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