summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/docs/manpages/pdbedit.8
blob: ab376f1c148148c7787b6d8d13561777d5bedaa6 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
.\"Generated by db2man.xsl. Don't modify this, modify the source.
.de Sh \" Subsection
.br
.if t .Sp
.ne 5
.PP
\fB\\$1\fR
.PP
..
.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP)
.if t .sp .5v
.if n .sp
..
.de Ip \" List item
.br
.ie \\n(.$>=3 .ne \\$3
.el .ne 3
.IP "\\$1" \\$2
..
.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] [-x] [-i passdb-backend] [-e passdb-backend]
        [-b passdb-backend] [-g] [-d debuglevel] [-s configfile] [-P account-policy]
        [-C value]
.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 version number for \fBsmbd\fR\&.


.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 \fI smb\&.conf(5)\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 log level parameter in the \fIsmb\&.conf(5)\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\&.