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  16 ><A
  17 NAME="PDBEDIT"
  18 >pdbedit</A
  19 ></H1
  20 ><DIV
  21 CLASS="REFNAMEDIV"
  22 ><A
  23 NAME="AEN5"
  24 ></A
  25 ><H2
  26 >Name</H2
  27 >pdbedit&nbsp;--&nbsp;manage the SAM database</DIV
  28 ><DIV
  29 CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV"
  30 ><A
  31 NAME="AEN8"
  32 ></A
  33 ><H2
  34 >Synopsis</H2
  35 ><P
  36 ><B
  37 CLASS="COMMAND"
  38 >pdbedit</B
  39 >  [-l] [-v] [-w] [-u username] [-f fullname] [-h homedir] [-d drive] [-s script] [-p profile] [-a] [-m] [-x] [-i file]</P
  40 ></DIV
  41 ><DIV
  42 CLASS="REFSECT1"
  43 ><A
  44 NAME="AEN24"
  45 ></A
  46 ><H2
  47 >DESCRIPTION</H2
  48 ><P
  49 >This tool is part of the <A
  50 HREF="samba.7.html"
  51 TARGET="_top"
  52 >       Samba</A
  53 > suite.</P
  54 ><P
  55 >The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts
  56         stored in the sam database and can be run only by root.</P
  57 ><P
  58 >The pdbedit tool use 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 addedd
  61         without changing the tool).</P
  62 ><P
  63 >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.</P
  66 ></DIV
  67 ><DIV
  68 CLASS="REFSECT1"
  69 ><A
  70 NAME="AEN31"
  71 ></A
  72 ><H2
  73 >OPTIONS</H2
  74 ><P
  75 ></P
  76 ><DIV
  77 CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
  78 ><DL
  79 ><DT
  80 >-l</DT
  81 ><DD
  82 ><P
  83 >This option list all the user accounts
  84                 present in the users database.
  85                 This option prints a list of user/uid pairs separated by
  86                 the ':' character.</P
  87 ><P
  88 >Example: <B
  89 CLASS="COMMAND"
  90 >pdbedit -l</B
  91 ></P
  92 ><P
  93 ><TABLE
  94 BORDER="0"
  95 BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
  96 WIDTH="90%"
  97 ><TR
  98 ><TD
  99 ><PRE
 100 CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
 101 >               sorce:500:Simo Sorce
 102                 samba:45:Test User
 103                 </PRE
 104 ></TD
 105 ></TR
 106 ></TABLE
 107 ></P
 108 ></DD
 109 ><DT
 110 >-v</DT
 111 ><DD
 112 ><P
 113 >This option sets the verbose listing format.
 114                 It will make pdbedit list the users in the database printing
 115                 out the account fields in a descriptive format.</P
 116 ><P
 117 >Example: <B
 118 CLASS="COMMAND"
 119 >pdbedit -l -v</B
 120 ></P
 121 ><P
 122 ><TABLE
 123 BORDER="0"
 124 BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
 125 WIDTH="90%"
 126 ><TR
 127 ><TD
 128 ><PRE
 129 CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
 130 >               ---------------
 131                 username:       sorce
 132                 user ID/Group:  500/500
 133                 user RID/GRID:  2000/2001
 134                 Full Name:      Simo Sorce
 135                 Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\sorce
 136                 HomeDir Drive:  H:
 137                 Logon Script:   \\BERSERKER\netlogon\sorce.bat
 138                 Profile Path:   \\BERSERKER\profile
 139                 ---------------
 140                 username:       samba
 141                 user ID/Group:  45/45
 142                 user RID/GRID:  1090/1091
 143                 Full Name:      Test User
 144                 Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\samba
 145                 HomeDir Drive:
 146                 Logon Script:
 147                 Profile Path:   \\BERSERKER\profile
 148                 </PRE
 149 ></TD
 150 ></TR
 151 ></TABLE
 152 ></P
 153 ></DD
 154 ><DT
 155 >-w</DT
 156 ><DD
 157 ><P
 158 >This option sets the "smbpasswd" listing format.
 159                 It will make pdbedit list the users in the database printing
 160                 out the account fields in a format compatible with the
 161                 <TT
 162 CLASS="FILENAME"
 163 >smbpasswd</TT
 164 > file format. (see the <A
 165 HREF="smbpasswd.5.html"
 166 TARGET="_top"
 167 ><TT
 168 CLASS="FILENAME"
 169 >smbpasswd(5)</TT
 170 ></A
 171 > for details)</P
 172 ><P
 173 >Example: <B
 174 CLASS="COMMAND"
 175 >pdbedit -l -w</B
 176 ></P
 177 ><P
 178 ><TABLE
 179 BORDER="0"
 180 BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
 181 WIDTH="90%"
 182 ><TR
 183 ><TD
 184 ><PRE
 185 CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
 186 >               sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:[UX         ]:LCT-00000000:
 187                 samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:[UX         ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D:
 188                 </PRE
 189 ></TD
 190 ></TR
 191 ></TABLE
 192 ></P
 193 ></DD
 194 ><DT
 195 >-u username</DT
 196 ><DD
 197 ><P
 198 >This option specifies that the username to be
 199                 used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing)
 200                 It is <EM
 201 >required</EM
 202 > in add, remove and modify
 203                 operations and <EM
 204 >optional</EM
 205 > in list
 206                 operations.</P
 207 ></DD
 208 ><DT
 209 >-f fullname</DT
 210 ><DD
 211 ><P
 212 >This option can be used while adding or
 213                 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's full
 214                 name. </P
 215 ><P
 216 >Example: <B
 217 CLASS="COMMAND"
 218 >-f "Simo Sorce"</B
 219 ></P
 220 ></DD
 221 ><DT
 222 >-h homedir</DT
 223 ><DD
 224 ><P
 225 >This option can be used while adding or
 226                 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's home
 227                 directory network path.</P
 228 ><P
 229 >Example: <B
 230 CLASS="COMMAND"
 231 >-h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"</B
 232 >
 233                 </P
 234 ></DD
 235 ><DT
 236 >-d drive</DT
 237 ><DD
 238 ><P
 239 >This option can be used while adding or
 240                 modifing a user account. It will specify the windows drive
 241                 letter to be used to map the home directory.</P
 242 ><P
 243 >Example: <B
 244 CLASS="COMMAND"
 245 >-d "H:"</B
 246 >
 247                 </P
 248 ></DD
 249 ><DT
 250 >-s script</DT
 251 ><DD
 252 ><P
 253 >This option can be used while adding or
 254                 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's logon
 255                 script path.</P
 256 ><P
 257 >Example: <B
 258 CLASS="COMMAND"
 259 >-s "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"</B
 260 >
 261                 </P
 262 ></DD
 263 ><DT
 264 >-p profile</DT
 265 ><DD
 266 ><P
 267 >This option can be used while adding or
 268                 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's profile
 269                 directory.</P
 270 ><P
 271 >Example: <B
 272 CLASS="COMMAND"
 273 >-p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"</B
 274 >
 275                 </P
 276 ></DD
 277 ><DT
 278 >-a</DT
 279 ><DD
 280 ><P
 281 >This option is used to add a user into the
 282                 database. This command need the user name be specified with
 283                 the -u switch. When adding a new user pdbedit will also
 284                 ask for the password to be used</P
 285 ><P
 286 >Example: <B
 287 CLASS="COMMAND"
 288 >pdbedit -a -u sorce</B
 289 >
 290                 <TABLE
 291 BORDER="0"
 292 BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
 293 WIDTH="90%"
 294 ><TR
 295 ><TD
 296 ><PRE
 297 CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
 298 >new password:
 299                 retype new password</PRE
 300 ></TD
 301 ></TR
 302 ></TABLE
 303 >
 304                 </P
 305 ></DD
 306 ><DT
 307 >-m</DT
 308 ><DD
 309 ><P
 310 >This option may only be used in conjunction
 311                 with the <TT
 312 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 313 ><I
 314 >-a</I
 315 ></TT
 316 > option. It will make
 317                 pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user
 318                 account (-u username will provide the machine name).</P
 319 ><P
 320 >Example: <B
 321 CLASS="COMMAND"
 322 >pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks</B
 323 >
 324                 </P
 325 ></DD
 326 ><DT
 327 >-x</DT
 328 ><DD
 329 ><P
 330 >This option causes pdbedit to delete an account
 331                 from the database. It need the username be specified with the
 332                 -u switch.</P
 333 ><P
 334 >Example: <B
 335 CLASS="COMMAND"
 336 >pdbedit -x -u bob</B
 337 ></P
 338 ></DD
 339 ><DT
 340 >-i file</DT
 341 ><DD
 342 ><P
 343 >This command is used to import a smbpasswd
 344                 file into the database.</P
 345 ><P
 346 >This option will ease migration from the plain smbpasswd
 347                 file database to more powerful backend databases like tdb and
 348                 ldap.</P
 349 ><P
 350 >Example: <B
 351 CLASS="COMMAND"
 352 >pdbedit -i /etc/smbpasswd.old</B
 353 >
 354                 </P
 355 ></DD
 356 ></DL
 357 ></DIV
 358 ></DIV
 359 ><DIV
 360 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 361 ><A
 362 NAME="AEN124"
 363 ></A
 364 ><H2
 365 >NOTES</H2
 366 ><P
 367 >This command may be used only by root.</P
 368 ></DIV
 369 ><DIV
 370 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 371 ><A
 372 NAME="AEN127"
 373 ></A
 374 ><H2
 375 >VERSION</H2
 376 ><P
 377 >This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
 378         the Samba suite.</P
 379 ></DIV
 380 ><DIV
 381 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 382 ><A
 383 NAME="AEN130"
 384 ></A
 385 ><H2
 386 >SEE ALSO</H2
 387 ><P
 388 ><A
 389 HREF="smbpasswd.8.html"
 390 TARGET="_top"
 391 >smbpasswd(8)</A
 392 >,
 393         <A
 394 HREF="samba.7.html"
 395 TARGET="_top"
 396 >samba(7)</A
 397 >
 398         </P
 399 ></DIV
 400 ><DIV
 401 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 402 ><A
 403 NAME="AEN135"
 404 ></A
 405 ><H2
 406 >AUTHOR</H2
 407 ><P
 408 >The original Samba software and related utilities
 409         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
 410         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
 411         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</P
 412 ><P
 413 >The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
 414         The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
 415         excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
 416         <A
 417 HREF="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"
 418 TARGET="_top"
 419 >       ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</A
 420 >) and updated for the Samba 2.0
 421         release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for
 422         Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</P
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