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.\"    Manual: System Administration tools
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.TH "SWAT" "8" "02/22/2010" "Samba 3\&.3" "System Administration tools"
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.SH "Name"
swat \- Samba Web Administration Tool
.SH "Synopsis"
.fam C
.HP \w'\ 'u
\FCswat\F[] [\-s\ <smb\ config\ file>] [\-a] [\-P]
.fam
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This tool is part of the
\fBsamba\fR(7)
suite\&.
.PP
\FCswat\F[]
allows a Samba administrator to configure the complex
\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
file via a Web browser\&. In addition, a
\FCswat\F[]
configuration page has help links to all the configurable options in the
\FCsmb\&.conf\F[]
file allowing an administrator to easily look up the effects of any change\&.
.PP
\FCswat\F[]
is run from
\FCinetd\F[]
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\-s smb configuration file
.RS 4
The default configuration file path is determined at compile time\&. The file specified contains the configuration details required by the
\fBsmbd\fR(8)
server\&. This is the file that
\FCswat\F[]
will modify\&. 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
\FCsmb\&.conf\F[]
for more information\&.
.RE
.PP
\-a
.RS 4
This option disables authentication and places
\FCswat\F[]
in demo mode\&. In that mode anyone will be able to modify the
\FCsmb\&.conf\F[]
file\&.
.sp
\fIWARNING: Do NOT enable this option on a production server\&. \fR
.RE
.PP
\-P
.RS 4
This option restricts read\-only users to the password management page\&.
\FCswat\F[]
can then be used to change user passwords without users seeing the "View" and "Status" menu buttons\&.
.RE
.PP
\-d|\-\-debuglevel=level
.RS 4
\fIlevel\fR
is an integer from 0 to 10\&. The default value if this parameter is not specified is 0\&.
.sp
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\&.
.sp
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\&.
.sp
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
\m[blue]\fB\%smb.conf.5.html#\fR\m[]
parameter in the
\FCsmb\&.conf\F[]
file\&.
.RE
.PP
\-V|\-\-version
.RS 4
Prints the program version number\&.
.RE
.PP
\-s|\-\-configfile <configuration file>
.RS 4
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
\FCsmb\&.conf\F[]
for more information\&. The default configuration file name is determined at compile time\&.
.RE
.PP
\-l|\-\-log\-basename=logdirectory
.RS 4
Base directory name for log/debug files\&. The extension
\fB"\&.progname"\fR
will be appended (e\&.g\&. log\&.smbclient, log\&.smbd, etc\&.\&.\&.)\&. The log file is never removed by the client\&.
.RE
.PP
\-h|\-\-help
.RS 4
Print a summary of command line options\&.
.RE
.SH "INSTALLATION"
.PP
Swat is included as binary package with most distributions\&. The package manager in this case takes care of the installation and configuration\&. This section is only for those who have compiled swat from scratch\&.
.PP
After you compile SWAT you need to run
\FCmake install \F[]
to install the
\FCswat\F[]
binary and the various help files and images\&. A default install would put these in:
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
/usr/local/samba/sbin/swat
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
/usr/local/samba/swat/images/*
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
/usr/local/samba/swat/help/*
.sp
.RE
.SS "Inetd Installation"
.PP
You need to edit your
\FC/etc/inetd\&.conf \F[]
and
\FC/etc/services\F[]
to enable SWAT to be launched via
\FCinetd\F[]\&.
.PP
In
\FC/etc/services\F[]
you need to add a line like this:
.PP
\FCswat 901/tcp\F[]
.PP
Note for NIS/YP and LDAP users \- you may need to rebuild the NIS service maps rather than alter your local
\FC /etc/services\F[]
file\&.
.PP
the choice of port number isn\'t really important except that it should be less than 1024 and not currently used (using a number above 1024 presents an obscure security hole depending on the implementation details of your
\FCinetd\F[]
daemon)\&.
.PP
In
\FC/etc/inetd\&.conf\F[]
you should add a line like this:
.PP
\FCswat stream tcp nowait\&.400 root /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat swat\F[]
.PP
Once you have edited
\FC/etc/services\F[]
and
\FC/etc/inetd\&.conf\F[]
you need to send a HUP signal to inetd\&. To do this use
\FCkill \-1 PID \F[]
where PID is the process ID of the inetd daemon\&.
.SH "LAUNCHING"
.PP
To launch SWAT just run your favorite web browser and point it at "http://localhost:901/"\&.
.PP
Note that you can attach to SWAT from any IP connected machine but connecting from a remote machine leaves your connection open to password sniffing as passwords will be sent in the clear over the wire\&.
.SH "FILES"
.PP
\FC/etc/inetd\&.conf\F[]
.RS 4
This file must contain suitable startup information for the meta\-daemon\&.
.RE
.PP
\FC/etc/services\F[]
.RS 4
This file must contain a mapping of service name (e\&.g\&., swat) to service port (e\&.g\&., 901) and protocol type (e\&.g\&., tcp)\&.
.RE
.PP
\FC/usr/local/samba/lib/smb\&.conf\F[]
.RS 4
This is the default location of the
\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
server configuration file that swat edits\&. Other common places that systems install this file are
\FC /usr/samba/lib/smb\&.conf\F[]
and
\FC/etc/smb\&.conf \F[]\&. This file describes all the services the server is to make available to clients\&.
.RE
.SH "WARNINGS"
.PP
\FCswat\F[]
will rewrite your
\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
file\&. It will rearrange the entries and delete all comments,
\fIinclude=\fR
and
\fIcopy= \fR
options\&. If you have a carefully crafted
\FC smb\&.conf\F[]
then back it up or don\'t use swat!
.SH "VERSION"
.PP
This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\FCinetd(5)\F[],
\fBsmbd\fR(8),
\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
.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\&.
.PP
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\&.