docs-xml/manpages-3/pdbedit.8.xml

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   3 <refentry id="pdbedit.8">
   4
   5 <refmeta>
   6         <refentrytitle>pdbedit</refentrytitle>
   7         <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
   8         <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
   9         <refmiscinfo class="manual">System Administration tools</refmiscinfo>
  10         <refmiscinfo class="version">3.2</refmiscinfo>
  11 </refmeta>
  12
  13
  14 <refnamediv>
  15         <refname>pdbedit</refname>
  16         <refpurpose>manage the SAM database (Database of Samba Users)</refpurpose>
  17 </refnamediv>
  18
  19 <refsynopsisdiv>
  20         <cmdsynopsis>
  21                 <command>pdbedit</command>
  22                 <arg choice="opt">-L</arg>
  23                 <arg choice="opt">-v</arg>
  24                 <arg choice="opt">-w</arg>
  25                 <arg choice="opt">-u username</arg>
  26                 <arg choice="opt">-f fullname</arg>
  27                 <arg choice="opt">-h homedir</arg>
  28                 <arg choice="opt">-D drive</arg>
  29                 <arg choice="opt">-S script</arg>
  30                 <arg choice="opt">-p profile</arg>
  31                 <arg choice="opt">-a</arg>
  32                 <arg choice="opt">-t, --password-from-stdin</arg>
  33                 <arg choice="opt">-m</arg>
  34                 <arg choice="opt">-r</arg>
  35                 <arg choice="opt">-x</arg>
  36                 <arg choice="opt">-i passdb-backend</arg>
  37                 <arg choice="opt">-e passdb-backend</arg>
  38                 <arg choice="opt">-b passdb-backend</arg>
  39                 <arg choice="opt">-g</arg>
  40                 <arg choice="opt">-d debuglevel</arg>
  41                 <arg choice="opt">-s configfile</arg>
  42                 <arg choice="opt">-P account-policy</arg>
  43                 <arg choice="opt">-C value</arg>
  44                 <arg choice="opt">-c account-control</arg>
  45                 <arg choice="opt">-y</arg>
  46         </cmdsynopsis>
  47 </refsynopsisdiv>
  48
  49 <refsect1>
  50         <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
  51
  52         <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
  53         <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
  54
  55         <para>The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts
  56         stored in the sam database and can only be run by root.</para>
  57
  58         <para>The pdbedit tool uses the passdb modular interface and is
  59         independent from the kind of users database used (currently there
  60         are smbpasswd, ldap, nis+ and tdb based and more can be added
  61         without changing the tool).</para>
  62
  63         <para>There are five main ways to use pdbedit: adding a user account,
  64         removing a user account, modifing a user account, listing user
  65         accounts, importing users accounts.</para>
  66 </refsect1>
  67
  68 <refsect1>
  69         <title>OPTIONS</title>
  70         <variablelist>
  71                 <varlistentry>
  72                 <term>-L</term>
  73                 <listitem><para>This option lists all the user accounts
  74                 present in the users database.
  75                 This option prints a list of user/uid pairs separated by
  76                 the ':' character.</para>
  77                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -L</command></para>
  78                 <para><programlisting>
  79 sorce:500:Simo Sorce
  80 samba:45:Test User
  81 </programlisting></para>
  82                 </listitem>
  83                 </varlistentry>
  84
  85
  86
  87                 <varlistentry>
  88                 <term>-v</term>
  89                 <listitem><para>This option enables the verbose listing format.
  90                 It causes pdbedit to list the users in the database, printing
  91                 out the account fields in a descriptive format.</para>
  92
  93                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -L -v</command></para>
  94                 <para><programlisting>
  95 ---------------
  96 username:       sorce
  97 user ID/Group:  500/500
  98 user RID/GRID:  2000/2001
  99 Full Name:      Simo Sorce
 100 Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\sorce
 101 HomeDir Drive:  H:
 102 Logon Script:   \\BERSERKER\netlogon\sorce.bat
 103 Profile Path:   \\BERSERKER\profile
 104 ---------------
 105 username:       samba
 106 user ID/Group:  45/45
 107 user RID/GRID:  1090/1091
 108 Full Name:      Test User
 109 Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\samba
 110 HomeDir Drive:
 111 Logon Script:
 112 Profile Path:   \\BERSERKER\profile
 113 </programlisting></para>
 114                 </listitem>
 115                 </varlistentry>
 116
 117
 118
 119                 <varlistentry>
 120                 <term>-w</term>
 121                 <listitem><para>This option sets the "smbpasswd" listing format.
 122                 It will make pdbedit list the users in the database, printing
 123                 out the account fields in a format compatible with the
 124                 <filename>smbpasswd</filename> file format. (see the
 125                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbpasswd</refentrytitle>
 126                 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for details)</para>
 127
 128                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -L -w</command></para>
 129                 <programlisting>
 130 sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:
 131           D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:
 132           [UX         ]:LCT-00000000:
 133 samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:
 134           BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:
 135           [UX         ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D:
 136 </programlisting>
 137                 </listitem>
 138                 </varlistentry>
 139
 140
 141                 <varlistentry>
 142                 <term>-u username</term>
 143                 <listitem><para>This option specifies the username to be
 144                 used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing).
 145                 It is <emphasis>required</emphasis> in add, remove and modify
 146                 operations and <emphasis>optional</emphasis> in list
 147                 operations.</para>
 148                 </listitem>
 149                 </varlistentry>
 150
 151                 <varlistentry>
 152                 <term>-f fullname</term>
 153                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 154                 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's full
 155                 name. </para>
 156
 157                 <para>Example: <command>-f "Simo Sorce"</command></para>
 158                 </listitem>
 159                 </varlistentry>
 160
 161                 <varlistentry>
 162                 <term>-h homedir</term>
 163                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 164                 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's home
 165                 directory network path.</para>
 166
 167                 <para>Example: <command>-h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"</command>
 168                 </para>
 169                 </listitem>
 170                 </varlistentry>
 171
 172                 <varlistentry>
 173                 <term>-D drive</term>
 174                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 175                 modifing a user account. It will specify the windows drive
 176                 letter to be used to map the home directory.</para>
 177
 178                 <para>Example: <command>-D "H:"</command>
 179                 </para>
 180                 </listitem>
 181                 </varlistentry>
 182
 183
 184                 <varlistentry>
 185                 <term>-S script</term>
 186                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 187                 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's logon
 188                 script path.</para>
 189
 190                 <para>Example: <command>-S "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"</command>
 191                 </para>
 192                 </listitem>
 193                 </varlistentry>
 194
 195
 196                 <varlistentry>
 197                 <term>-p profile</term>
 198                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 199                 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's profile
 200                 directory.</para>
 201
 202                 <para>Example: <command>-p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"</command>
 203                 </para>
 204                 </listitem>
 205                 </varlistentry>
 206
 207                 <varlistentry>
 208                 <term>-G SID|rid</term>
 209                 <listitem><para>
 210                 This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account. It
 211                 will specify the users' new primary group SID (Security Identifier) or
 212                 rid. </para>
 213
 214                 <para>Example: <command>-G S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-1201</command></para>
 215                 </listitem>
 216                 </varlistentry>
 217
 218                 <varlistentry>
 219                 <term>-U SID|rid</term>
 220                 <listitem><para>
 221                 This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account. It
 222                 will specify the users' new SID (Security Identifier) or
 223                 rid. </para>
 224
 225                 <para>Example: <command>-U S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-5004</command></para>
 226                 </listitem>
 227                 </varlistentry>
 228
 229                 <varlistentry>
 230                 <term>-c account-control</term>
 231                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or modifying a user
 232                                 account. It will specify the users' account control property. Possible flags are listed below.
 233         </para>
 234
 235         <para>
 236                 <itemizedlist>
 237                         <listitem><para>N: No password required</para></listitem>
 238                         <listitem><para>D: Account disabled</para></listitem>
 239                         <listitem><para>H: Home directory required</para></listitem>
 240                         <listitem><para>T: Temporary duplicate of other account</para></listitem>
 241                         <listitem><para>U: Regular user account</para></listitem>
 242                         <listitem><para>M: MNS logon user account</para></listitem>
 243                         <listitem><para>W: Workstation Trust Account</para></listitem>
 244                         <listitem><para>S: Server Trust Account</para></listitem>
 245                         <listitem><para>L: Automatic Locking</para></listitem>
 246                         <listitem><para>X: Password does not expire</para></listitem>
 247                         <listitem><para>I: Domain Trust Account</para></listitem>
 248                 </itemizedlist>
 249         </para>
 250
 251                 <para>Example: <command>-c "[X          ]"</command></para>
 252                 </listitem>
 253                 </varlistentry>
 254
 255                 <varlistentry>
 256                 <term>-a</term>
 257                 <listitem><para>This option is used to add a user into the
 258                 database. This command needs a user name specified with
 259                 the -u switch. When adding a new user, pdbedit will also
 260                 ask for the password to be used.</para>
 261
 262                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -a -u sorce</command>
 263 <programlisting>new password:
 264 retype new password
 265 </programlisting>
 266 </para>
 267
 268                 <note><para>pdbedit does not call the unix password syncronisation
 269                                 script if <smbconfoption name="unix password sync"/>
 270                                 has been set. It only updates the data in the Samba
 271                                 user database.
 272                         </para>
 273
 274                         <para>If you wish to add a user and synchronise the password
 275                                 that immediately, use <command>smbpasswd</command>'s <option>-a</option> option.
 276                         </para>
 277                 </note>
 278                 </listitem>
 279                 </varlistentry>
 280
 281                 <varlistentry>
 282                 <term>-t, --password-from-stdin</term>
 283                 <listitem><para>This option causes pdbedit to read the password
 284                 from standard input, rather than from /dev/tty (like the
 285                 <command>passwd(1)</command> program does).  The password has
 286                 to be submitted twice and terminated by a newline each.</para>
 287                 </listitem>
 288                 </varlistentry>
 289
 290                 <varlistentry>
 291                 <term>-r</term>
 292                 <listitem><para>This option is used to modify an existing user
 293                 in the database. This command needs a user name specified with the -u
 294                 switch. Other options can be specified to modify the properties of
 295                 the specified user. This flag is kept for backwards compatibility, but
 296                 it is no longer necessary to specify it.
 297                 </para></listitem>
 298                 </varlistentry>
 299
 300                 <varlistentry>
 301                 <term>-m</term>
 302                 <listitem><para>This option may only be used in conjunction
 303                 with the <parameter>-a</parameter> option. It will make
 304                 pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user
 305                 account (-u username will provide the machine name).</para>
 306
 307                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks</command>
 308                 </para>
 309                 </listitem>
 310                 </varlistentry>
 311
 312
 313                 <varlistentry>
 314                 <term>-x</term>
 315                 <listitem><para>This option causes pdbedit to delete an account
 316                 from the database. It needs a username specified with the
 317                 -u switch.</para>
 318
 319                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -x -u bob</command></para>
 320                 </listitem>
 321                 </varlistentry>
 322
 323
 324                 <varlistentry>
 325                 <term>-i passdb-backend</term>
 326                 <listitem><para>Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users
 327                 than the one specified in smb.conf. Can be used to import data into
 328                 your local user database.</para>
 329
 330                 <para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
 331                 another.</para>
 332
 333                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old
 334                 </command></para>
 335                 </listitem>
 336                 </varlistentry>
 337
 338                 <varlistentry>
 339                 <term>-e passdb-backend</term>
 340                 <listitem><para>Exports all currently available users to the
 341                 specified password database backend.</para>
 342
 343                 <para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
 344                 another and will ease backing up.</para>
 345
 346                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup</command></para>
 347                 </listitem>
 348                 </varlistentry>
 349
 350                 <varlistentry>
 351                 <term>-g</term>
 352                 <listitem><para>If you specify <parameter>-g</parameter>,
 353                 then <parameter>-i in-backend -e out-backend</parameter>
 354                 applies to the group mapping instead of the user database.</para>
 355
 356                 <para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
 357                 another and will ease backing up.</para>
 358
 359                 </listitem>
 360                 </varlistentry>
 361
 362                 <varlistentry>
 363                 <term>-b passdb-backend</term>
 364                 <listitem><para>Use a different default passdb backend. </para>
 365
 366                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -b xml:/root/pdb-backup.xml -l</command></para>
 367                 </listitem>
 368                 </varlistentry>
 369
 370                 <varlistentry>
 371                 <term>-P account-policy</term>
 372                 <listitem><para>Display an account policy</para>
 373                 <para>Valid policies are: minimum password age, reset count minutes, disconnect time,
 374                 user must logon to change password, password history, lockout duration, min password length,
 375                 maximum password age and bad lockout attempt.</para>
 376
 377                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"</command></para>
 378 <para><programlisting>
 379 account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0
 380 </programlisting></para>
 381
 382                 </listitem>
 383                 </varlistentry>
 384
 385
 386                 <varlistentry>
 387                 <term>-C account-policy-value</term>
 388                 <listitem><para>Sets an account policy to a specified value.
 389                 This option may only be used in conjunction
 390                 with the <parameter>-P</parameter> option.
 391                 </para>
 392
 393                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3</command></para>
 394 <para><programlisting>
 395 account policy value for bad lockout attempt was 0
 396 account policy value for bad lockout attempt is now 3
 397 </programlisting></para>
 398                 </listitem>
 399                 </varlistentry>
 400
 401                 <varlistentry>
 402                 <term>-y</term>
 403                 <listitem><para>If you specify <parameter>-y</parameter>,
 404                 then <parameter>-i in-backend -e out-backend</parameter>
 405                 applies to the account policies instead of the user database.</para>
 406
 407                 <para>This option will allow to migrate account policies from their default
 408                 tdb-store into a passdb backend, e.g. an LDAP directory server.</para>
 409
 410                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -y -i tdbsam: -e ldapsam:ldap://my.ldap.host</command></para>
 411
 412                 </listitem>
 413                 </varlistentry>
 414
 415                 &stdarg.help;
 416                 &stdarg.server.debug;
 417                 &popt.common.samba;
 418
 419         </variablelist>
 420 </refsect1>
 421
 422
 423 <refsect1>
 424         <title>NOTES</title>
 425
 426         <para>This command may be used only by root.</para>
 427 </refsect1>
 428
 429
 430 <refsect1>
 431         <title>VERSION</title>
 432
 433         <para>This man page is correct for version 3 of
 434         the Samba suite.</para>
 435 </refsect1>
 436
 437 <refsect1>
 438         <title>SEE ALSO</title>
 439         <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbpasswd</refentrytitle>
 440         <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
 441         <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>
 442 </refsect1>
 443
 444 <refsect1>
 445         <title>AUTHOR</title>
 446
 447         <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
 448         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
 449         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
 450         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
 451
 452         <para>The pdbedit manpage was written by Simo Sorce and Jelmer Vernooij.</para>
 453
 454 </refsect1>
 455
 456 </refentry>