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2.\" Title: swat
3.\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section]
4.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.2 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
5.\" Date: 11/01/2012
6.\" Manual: System Administration tools
7.\" Source: Samba 3.5
8.\" Language: English
9.\"
10.TH "SWAT" "8" "11/01/2012" "Samba 3\&.5" "System Administration tools"
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21.SH "NAME"
22swat \- Samba Web Administration Tool
23.SH "SYNOPSIS"
24.HP \w'\ 'u
25swat [\-s\ <smb\ config\ file>] [\-a] [\-P]
26.SH "DESCRIPTION"
27.PP
28This tool is part of the
29\fBsamba\fR(7)
30suite\&.
31.PP
32swat
33allows a Samba administrator to configure the complex
34\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
35file via a Web browser\&. In addition, a
36swat
37configuration page has help links to all the configurable options in the
38smb\&.conf
39file allowing an administrator to easily look up the effects of any change\&.
40.PP
41swat
42is run from
43inetd
44.SH "OPTIONS"
45.PP
46\-s smb configuration file
47.RS 4
48The default configuration file path is determined at compile time\&. The file specified contains the configuration details required by the
49\fBsmbd\fR(8)
50server\&. This is the file that
51swat
52will 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
53smb\&.conf
54for more information\&.
55.RE
56.PP
57\-a
58.RS 4
59This option disables authentication and places
60swat
61in demo mode\&. In that mode anyone will be able to modify the
62smb\&.conf
63file\&.
64.sp
65\fIWARNING: Do NOT enable this option on a production server\&. \fR
66.RE
67.PP
68\-P
69.RS 4
70This option restricts read\-only users to the password management page\&.
71swat
72can then be used to change user passwords without users seeing the "View" and "Status" menu buttons\&.
73.RE
74.PP
75\-d|\-\-debuglevel=level
76.RS 4
77\fIlevel\fR
78is an integer from 0 to 10\&. The default value if this parameter is not specified is 0\&.
79.sp
80The 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\&.
81.sp
82Levels 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\&.
83.sp
84Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
85\m[blue]\fB\%smb.conf.5.html#\fR\m[]
86parameter in the
87smb\&.conf
88file\&.
89.RE
90.PP
91\-V|\-\-version
92.RS 4
93Prints the program version number\&.
94.RE
95.PP
96\-s|\-\-configfile <configuration file>
97.RS 4
98The 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
99smb\&.conf
100for more information\&. The default configuration file name is determined at compile time\&.
101.RE
102.PP
103\-l|\-\-log\-basename=logdirectory
104.RS 4
105Base directory name for log/debug files\&. The extension
106\fB"\&.progname"\fR
107will be appended (e\&.g\&. log\&.smbclient, log\&.smbd, etc\&.\&.\&.)\&. The log file is never removed by the client\&.
108.RE
109.PP
110\-h|\-\-help
111.RS 4
112Print a summary of command line options\&.
113.RE
114.SH "INSTALLATION"
115.PP
116Swat 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\&.
117.PP
118After you compile SWAT you need to run
119make install
120to install the
121swat
122binary and the various help files and images\&. A default install would put these in:
123.sp
124.RS 4
125.ie n \{\
126\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
127.\}
128.el \{\
129.sp -1
130.IP \(bu 2.3
131.\}
132/usr/local/samba/sbin/swat
133.RE
134.sp
135.RS 4
136.ie n \{\
137\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
138.\}
139.el \{\
140.sp -1
141.IP \(bu 2.3
142.\}
143/usr/local/samba/swat/images/*
144.RE
145.sp
146.RS 4
147.ie n \{\
148\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
149.\}
150.el \{\
151.sp -1
152.IP \(bu 2.3
153.\}
154/usr/local/samba/swat/help/*
155.sp
156.RE
157.SS "Inetd Installation"
158.PP
159You need to edit your
160/etc/inetd\&.conf
161and
162/etc/services
163to enable SWAT to be launched via
164inetd\&.
165.PP
166In
167/etc/services
168you need to add a line like this:
169.PP
170swat 901/tcp
171.PP
172Note for NIS/YP and LDAP users \- you may need to rebuild the NIS service maps rather than alter your local
173/etc/services
174file\&.
175.PP
176the 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
177inetd
178daemon)\&.
179.PP
180In
181/etc/inetd\&.conf
182you should add a line like this:
183.PP
184swat stream tcp nowait\&.400 root /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat swat
185.PP
186Once you have edited
187/etc/services
188and
189/etc/inetd\&.conf
190you need to send a HUP signal to inetd\&. To do this use
191kill \-1 PID
192where PID is the process ID of the inetd daemon\&.
193.SH "LAUNCHING"
194.PP
195To launch SWAT just run your favorite web browser and point it at "http://localhost:901/"\&.
196.PP
197Note 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\&.
198.SH "FILES"
199.PP
200/etc/inetd\&.conf
201.RS 4
202This file must contain suitable startup information for the meta\-daemon\&.
203.RE
204.PP
205/etc/services
206.RS 4
207This file must contain a mapping of service name (e\&.g\&., swat) to service port (e\&.g\&., 901) and protocol type (e\&.g\&., tcp)\&.
208.RE
209.PP
210/usr/local/samba/lib/smb\&.conf
211.RS 4
212This is the default location of the
213\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
214server configuration file that swat edits\&. Other common places that systems install this file are
215/usr/samba/lib/smb\&.conf
216and
217/etc/smb\&.conf\&. This file describes all the services the server is to make available to clients\&.
218.RE
219.SH "WARNINGS"
220.PP
221swat
222will rewrite your
223\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
224file\&. It will rearrange the entries and delete all comments,
225\fIinclude=\fR
226and
227\fIcopy= \fR
228options\&. If you have a carefully crafted
229smb\&.conf
230then back it up or don\'t use swat!
231.SH "VERSION"
232.PP
233This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite\&.
234.SH "SEE ALSO"
235.PP
236inetd(5),
237\fBsmbd\fR(8),
238\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
239.SH "AUTHOR"
240.PP
241The 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\&.
242.PP
243The 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
244ftp://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\&.
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