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.TH "PDBEDIT" 8 "" "" ""
.SH NAME
pdbedit \- manage the SAM database
.SH "SYNOPSIS"

.nf
\fBpdbedit\fR [-L] [-v] [-w] [-u username] [-f fullname] [-h homedir] [-D drive] [-S
        script] [-p profile] [-a] [-m] [-r] [-x] [-i passdb-backend] [-e passdb-backend]
        [-b passdb-backend] [-g] [-d debuglevel] [-s configfile] [-P account-policy]
        [-C value] [-c account-control]
.fi

.SH "DESCRIPTION"

.PP
This tool is part of the \fBSamba\fR(7) suite\&.

.PP
The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts stored in the sam database and can only be run by root\&.

.PP
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)\&.

.PP
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\&.

.SH "OPTIONS"

.TP
-L
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\&.


Example: \fBpdbedit -L\fR


.nf

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


.TP
-v
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\&.


Example: \fBpdbedit -L -v\fR


.nf

---------------
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
.fi


.TP
-w
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 \fIsmbpasswd\fR file format\&. (see the \fBsmbpasswd\fR(5) for details)


Example: \fBpdbedit -L -w\fR


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

.TP
-u username
This option specifies the username to be used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing)\&. It is \fBrequired\fR in add, remove and modify operations and \fBoptional\fR in list operations\&.


.TP
-f fullname
This option can be used while adding or modifing a user account\&. It will specify the user's full name\&.


Example: \fB-f "Simo Sorce"\fR


.TP
-h homedir
This option can be used while adding or modifing a user account\&. It will specify the user's home directory network path\&.


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


.TP
-D drive
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: \fB-d "H:"\fR


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


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


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


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


.TP
-G SID|rid
This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account\&. It will specify the users' new primary group SID (Security Identifier) or rid\&.


Example: \fB-G S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-1201\fR


.TP
-U SID|rid
This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account\&. It will specify the users' new SID (Security Identifier) or rid\&.


Example: \fB-U S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-5004\fR


.TP
-c account-control
This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account\&. It will specify the users' account control property\&. Possible flags that can be set are: N, D, H, L, X\&.


Example: \fB-c "[X ]"\fR


.TP
-a
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\&.


Example: \fBpdbedit -a -u sorce\fR
.nf
new password:
retype new password
.fi



.TP
-r
This option is used to modify an existing user in the database\&. This command needs a user name specified with the -u switch\&. Other options can be specified to modify the properties of the specified user\&. This flag is kept for backwards compatibility, but it is no longer necessary to specify it\&.


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


Example: \fBpdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks\fR


.TP
-x
This option causes pdbedit to delete an account from the database\&. It needs a username specified with the -u switch\&.


Example: \fBpdbedit -x -u bob\fR


.TP
-i passdb-backend
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\&.


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


Example: \fBpdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old \fR


.TP
-e passdb-backend
Exports all currently available users to the specified password database backend\&.


This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another and will ease backing up\&.


Example: \fBpdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup\fR


.TP
-g
If you specify \fI-g\fR, then \fI-i in-backend -e out-backend\fR applies to the group mapping instead of the user database\&.


This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another and will ease backing up\&.


.TP
-b passdb-backend
Use a different default passdb backend\&.


Example: \fBpdbedit -b xml:/root/pdb-backup.xml -l\fR


.TP
-P account-policy
Display an account policy


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\&.


Example: \fBpdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"\fR


.nf

account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0
.fi


.TP
-C account-policy-value
Sets an account policy to a specified value\&. This option may only be used in conjunction with the \fI-P\fR option\&.


Example: \fBpdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3\fR


.nf

account policy value for bad lockout attempt was 0
account policy value for bad lockout attempt is now 3
.fi


.TP
-h|--help
Print a summary of command line options\&.


.TP
-V
Prints the program version number\&.


.TP
-s <configuration file>
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 \fIsmb\&.conf\fR for more information\&. The default configuration file name is determined at compile time\&.


.TP
-d|--debug=debuglevel
\fIdebuglevel\fR is an integer from 0 to 10\&. The default value if this parameter is not specified is zero\&.


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\&.


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\&.


Note that specifying this parameter here will override the \fIlog level\fR parameter in the \fIsmb\&.conf\fR file\&.


.TP
-l|--logfile=logbasename
File name for log/debug files\&. The extension \fB"\&.client"\fR will be appended\&. The log file is never removed by the client\&.


.SH "NOTES"

.PP
This command may be used only by root\&.

.SH "VERSION"

.PP
This man page is correct for version 3\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.PP
\fBsmbpasswd\fR(5), \fBsamba\fR(7)

.SH "AUTHOR"

.PP
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\&.