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pdbedit(8)                                                          pdbedit(8)




NAME

       pdbedit - manage the SAM database (Database of Samba Users)


SYNOPSIS

       pdbedit   [-L]   [-v]  [-w]  [-u username]  [-f fullname]  [-h homedir]
        [-D drive] [-S script] [-p profile]  [-a]  [-t, --password-from-stdin]
        [-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] [-y]


DESCRIPTION

       This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

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

       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).

       There  are five main ways to use pdbedit: adding a user account, remov-
       ing a user account, modifing a user  account,  listing  user  accounts,
       importing users accounts.


OPTIONS

       -L
          This  option  lists all the user accounts present in the users data-
          base. This option prints a list of user/uid pairs separated  by  the
          ':' character.

          Example: pdbedit -L





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



       -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: pdbedit -L -v





          ---------------
          username:       sorce
          user ID/Group:  500/500
          user RID/GRID:  2000/2001
          Full Name:      Simo Sorce
          Home Directory: \BERSERKERce
          HomeDir Drive:  H:
          Logon Script:   \BERSERKER0tlogonce.bat
          Profile Path:   \BERSERKERrofile
          ---------------
          username:       samba
          user ID/Group:  45/45
          user RID/GRID:  1090/1091
          Full Name:      Test User
          Home Directory: \BERSERKERba
          HomeDir Drive:
          Logon Script:
          Profile Path:   \BERSERKERrofile



       -w
          This option sets the "smbpasswd" listing format. It will make  pdbe-
          dit  list the users in the database, printing out the account fields
          in a format compatible with the smbpasswd file format. (see the smb-
          passwd(5) for details)

          Example: pdbedit -L -w


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


       -u username
          This  option  specifies  the  username  to be used for the operation
          requested (listing, adding, removing). It is required in add, remove
          and modify operations and optional in list operations.

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

          Example: -f "Simo Sorce"

       -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: -h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"

       -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: -D "H:"

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

          Example: -S "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"

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

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

       -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: -G S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-1201

       -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: -U S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-5004

       -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 are
          listed below.



             o  N: No password required

             o  D: Account disabled

             o  H: Home directory required

             o  T: Temporary duplicate of other account

             o  U: Regular user account

             o  M: MNS logon user account

             o  W: Workstation Trust Account

             o  S: Server Trust Account

             o  L: Automatic Locking

             o  X: Password does not expire

             o  I: Domain Trust Account



             Example: -c "[X ]"

       -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: pdbedit -a -u sorce



          new password:
          retype new password



          Note
          pdbedit does not call the unix  password  syncronisation  script  if
          unix  password  sync  has  been set. It only updates the data in the
          Samba user database.

          If you wish to add a user and synchronise the password that  immedi-
          ately, use smbpasswd's -a option.

       -t, --password-from-stdin
          This option causes pdbedit to read the password from standard input,
          rather than from /dev/tty (like the  passwd(1)  program  does).  The
          password has to be submitted twice and terminated by a newline each.

       -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.

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

          Example: pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks

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

          Example: pdbedit -x -u bob

       -i passdb-backend
          Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users than the one speci-
          fied 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: pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old

       -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: pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup

       -g
          If you specify -g, then -i in-backend -e out-backend 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.

       -b passdb-backend
          Use a different default passdb backend.

          Example: pdbedit -b xml:/root/pdb-backup.xml -l

       -P account-policy
          Display an account policy

          Valid policies are: minimum password age, reset count minutes,  dis-
          connect  time, user must logon to change password, password history,
          lockout duration, min password length, maximum password age and  bad
          lockout attempt.

          Example: pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"





          account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0



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

          Example: pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3





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



       -y
          If you specify -y, then -i in-backend -e out-backend applies to  the
          account policies instead of the user database.

          This  option  will  allow  to  migrate  account  policies from their
          default tdb-store into a passdb  backend,  e.g.  an  LDAP  directory
          server.

          Example: pdbedit -y -i tdbsam: -e ldapsam:ldap://my.ldap.host

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

       -V
          Prints the program version number.

       -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 descrip-
          tions of all the  services  that  the  server  is  to  provide.  See
          smb.conf  for  more information. The default configuration file name
          is determined at compile time.

       -d|--debuglevel=level
          level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this  parame-
          ter 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 infor-
          mation 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

          parameter in the smb.conf file.

       -l|--logfile=logdirectory
          Base directory name for log/debug files. The  extension  ".progname"
          will  be  appended  (e.g.  log.smbclient, log.smbd, etc...). The log
          file is never removed by the client.


NOTES

       This command may be used only by root.


VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.


SEE ALSO

       smbpasswd(5), samba(7)


AUTHOR

       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.

       The pdbedit manpage was written by Simo Sorce and Jelmer Vernooij.




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