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22 pdbedit \- manage the SAM database
26 \fBpdbedit\fR [-l] [-v] [-w] [-u username] [-f fullname] [-h homedir] [-D drive] [-S
27 script] [-p profile] [-a] [-m] [-x] [-i passdb-backend] [-e passdb-backend]
28 [-g] [-b passdb-backend] [-g] [-d debuglevel] [-s configfile] [-P account-policy]
35 This tool is part of the \fBSamba\fR(7) suite\&.
38 The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts stored in the sam database and can only be run by root\&.
41 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)\&.
44 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\&.
50 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\&.
53 Example: \fBpdbedit -l\fR
65 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\&.
68 Example: \fBpdbedit -l -v\fR
75 user ID/Group: 500/500
76 user RID/GRID: 2000/2001
78 Home Directory: \\\\BERSERKER\\sorce
80 Logon Script: \\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce\&.bat
81 Profile Path: \\\\BERSERKER\\profile
85 user RID/GRID: 1090/1091
87 Home Directory: \\\\BERSERKER\\samba
90 Profile Path: \\\\BERSERKER\\profile
96 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)
99 Example: \fBpdbedit -l -w\fR
102 sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:[UX ]:LCT-00000000:
103 samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:[UX ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D:
107 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\&.
112 This option can be used while adding or modifing a user account\&. It will specify the user's full name\&.
115 Example: \fB-f "Simo Sorce"\fR
120 This option can be used while adding or modifing a user account\&. It will specify the user's home directory network path\&.
123 Example: \fB-h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"\fR
128 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\&.
131 Example: \fB-d "H:"\fR
136 This option can be used while adding or modifing a user account\&. It will specify the user's logon script path\&.
139 Example: \fB-s "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"\fR
144 This option can be used while adding or modifing a user account\&. It will specify the user's profile directory\&.
147 Example: \fB-p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"\fR
152 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\&.
155 Example: \fBpdbedit -a -u sorce\fR
165 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)\&.
168 Example: \fBpdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks\fR
173 This option causes pdbedit to delete an account from the database\&. It needs a username specified with the -u switch\&.
176 Example: \fBpdbedit -x -u bob\fR
181 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\&.
184 This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another\&.
187 Example: \fBpdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old \fR
192 Exports all currently available users to the specified password database backend\&.
195 This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another and will ease backing up\&.
198 Example: \fBpdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup\fR
203 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\&.
206 This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another and will ease backing up\&.
211 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\&.
214 This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another and will ease backing up\&.
219 Use a different default passdb backend\&.
222 Example: \fBpdbedit -b xml:/root/pdb-backup.xml -l\fR
227 Display an account policy
230 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\&.
233 Example: \fBpdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"\fR
238 account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0
243 -C account-policy-value
244 Sets an account policy to a specified value\&. This option may only be used in conjunction with the \fI-P\fR option\&.
247 Example: \fBpdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3\fR
252 account policy value for bad lockout attempt was 0
253 account policy value for bad lockout attempt is now 3
259 Print a summary of command line options\&.
264 Prints the version number for \fBsmbd\fR\&.
268 -s <configuration file>
269 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\&.
273 -d|--debug=debuglevel
274 \fIdebuglevel\fR is an integer from 0 to 10\&. The default value if this parameter is not specified is zero\&.
277 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\&.
280 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\&.
283 Note that specifying this parameter here will override the log level parameter in the \fIsmb\&.conf(5)\fR file\&.
287 -l|--logfile=logbasename
288 File name for log/debug files\&. The extension \fB"\&.client"\fR will be appended\&. The log file is never removed by the client\&.
294 This command may be used only by root\&.
299 This man page is correct for version 2\&.2 of the Samba suite\&.
304 \fBsmbpasswd\fR(5), \fBsamba\fR(7)
309 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\&.
312 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 ftp://ftp\&.icce\&.rug\&.nl/pub/unix/) 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\&.