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1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>pdbedit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.71.0"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="pdbedit.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>pdbedit &#8212; manage the SAM database (Database of Samba Users)</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">pdbedit</code> [-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]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259437"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts
2 stored in the sam database and can only be run by root.</p><p>The pdbedit tool uses the passdb modular interface and is
3 independent from the kind of users database used (currently there
4 are smbpasswd, ldap, nis+ and tdb based and more can be added
5 without changing the tool).</p><p>There are five main ways to use pdbedit: adding a user account,
6 removing a user account, modifing a user account, listing user
7 accounts, importing users accounts.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id260385"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-L</span></dt><dd><p>This option lists all the user accounts
8 present in the users database.
9 This option prints a list of user/uid pairs separated by
10 the ':' character.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -L</code></p><pre class="programlisting">
11sorce:500:Simo Sorce
12samba:45:Test User
13</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-v</span></dt><dd><p>This option enables the verbose listing format.
14 It causes pdbedit to list the users in the database, printing
15 out the account fields in a descriptive format.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -L -v</code></p><pre class="programlisting">
16---------------
17username: sorce
18user ID/Group: 500/500
19user RID/GRID: 2000/2001
20Full Name: Simo Sorce
21Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\sorce
22HomeDir Drive: H:
23Logon Script: \\BERSERKER\netlogon\sorce.bat
24Profile Path: \\BERSERKER\profile
25---------------
26username: samba
27user ID/Group: 45/45
28user RID/GRID: 1090/1091
29Full Name: Test User
30Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\samba
31HomeDir Drive:
32Logon Script:
33Profile Path: \\BERSERKER\profile
34</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-w</span></dt><dd><p>This option sets the "smbpasswd" listing format.
35 It will make pdbedit list the users in the database, printing
36 out the account fields in a format compatible with the
37 <code class="filename">smbpasswd</code> file format. (see the
38 <a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbpasswd</span>(5)</span></a> for details)</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -L -w</code></p><pre class="programlisting">
39sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:
40 D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:
41 [UX ]:LCT-00000000:
42samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:
43 BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:
44 [UX ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D:
45</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-u username</span></dt><dd><p>This option specifies the username to be
46 used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing).
47 It is <span class="emphasis"><em>required</em></span> in add, remove and modify
48 operations and <span class="emphasis"><em>optional</em></span> in list
49 operations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-f fullname</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
50 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's full
51 name. </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-f "Simo Sorce"</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-h homedir</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
52 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's home
53 directory network path.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"</code>
54 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-D drive</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
55 modifing a user account. It will specify the windows drive
56 letter to be used to map the home directory.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-D "H:"</code>
57 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-S script</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
58 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's logon
59 script path.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-S "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"</code>
60 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-p profile</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
61 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's profile
62 directory.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"</code>
63 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-G SID|rid</span></dt><dd><p>
64 This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account. It
65 will specify the users' new primary group SID (Security Identifier) or
66 rid. </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-G S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-1201</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-U SID|rid</span></dt><dd><p>
67 This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account. It
68 will specify the users' new SID (Security Identifier) or
69 rid. </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-U S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-5004</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-c account-control</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or modifying a user
70 account. It will specify the users' account control property. Possible flags are listed below.
71 </p><p>
72 </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>N: No password required</p></li><li><p>D: Account disabled</p></li><li><p>H: Home directory required</p></li><li><p>T: Temporary duplicate of other account</p></li><li><p>U: Regular user account</p></li><li><p>M: MNS logon user account</p></li><li><p>W: Workstation Trust Account</p></li><li><p>S: Server Trust Account</p></li><li><p>L: Automatic Locking</p></li><li><p>X: Password does not expire</p></li><li><p>I: Domain Trust Account</p></li></ul></div><p>
73 </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-c "[X ]"</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-a</span></dt><dd><p>This option is used to add a user into the
74 database. This command needs a user name specified with
75 the -u switch. When adding a new user, pdbedit will also
76 ask for the password to be used.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -a -u sorce</code>
77</p><pre class="programlisting">new password:
78retype new password
79</pre><p>
80</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>pdbedit does not call the unix password syncronisation
81 script if <a class="indexterm" name="id300639"></a>unix password sync
82 has been set. It only updates the data in the Samba
83 user database.
84 </p><p>If you wish to add a user and synchronise the password
85 that immediately, use <code class="literal">smbpasswd</code>'s <code class="option">-a</code> option.
86 </p></div></dd><dt><span class="term">-t, --password-from-stdin</span></dt><dd><p>This option causes pdbedit to read the password
87 from standard input, rather than from /dev/tty (like the
88 <code class="literal">passwd(1)</code> program does). The password has
89 to be submitted twice and terminated by a newline each.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-r</span></dt><dd><p>This option is used to modify an existing user
90 in the database. This command needs a user name specified with the -u
91 switch. Other options can be specified to modify the properties of
92 the specified user. This flag is kept for backwards compatibility, but
93 it is no longer necessary to specify it.
94 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-m</span></dt><dd><p>This option may only be used in conjunction
95 with the <em class="parameter"><code>-a</code></em> option. It will make
96 pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user
97 account (-u username will provide the machine name).</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks</code>
98 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-x</span></dt><dd><p>This option causes pdbedit to delete an account
99 from the database. It needs a username specified with the
100 -u switch.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -x -u bob</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-i passdb-backend</span></dt><dd><p>Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users
101 than the one specified in smb.conf. Can be used to import data into
102 your local user database.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
103 another.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old
104 </code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-e passdb-backend</span></dt><dd><p>Exports all currently available users to the
105 specified password database backend.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
106 another and will ease backing up.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-g</span></dt><dd><p>If you specify <em class="parameter"><code>-g</code></em>,
107 then <em class="parameter"><code>-i in-backend -e out-backend</code></em>
108 applies to the group mapping instead of the user database.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
109 another and will ease backing up.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-b passdb-backend</span></dt><dd><p>Use a different default passdb backend. </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -b xml:/root/pdb-backup.xml -l</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-P account-policy</span></dt><dd><p>Display an account policy</p><p>Valid policies are: minimum password age, reset count minutes, disconnect time,
110 user must logon to change password, password history, lockout duration, min password length,
111 maximum password age and bad lockout attempt.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"</code></p><pre class="programlisting">
112account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0
113</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-C account-policy-value</span></dt><dd><p>Sets an account policy to a specified value.
114 This option may only be used in conjunction
115 with the <em class="parameter"><code>-P</code></em> option.
116 </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3</code></p><pre class="programlisting">
117account policy value for bad lockout attempt was 0
118account policy value for bad lockout attempt is now 3
119</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-y</span></dt><dd><p>If you specify <em class="parameter"><code>-y</code></em>,
120 then <em class="parameter"><code>-i in-backend -e out-backend</code></em>
121 applies to the account policies instead of the user database.</p><p>This option will allow to migrate account policies from their default
122 tdb-store into a passdb backend, e.g. an LDAP directory server.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -y -i tdbsam: -e ldapsam:ldap://my.ldap.host</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-h|--help</span></dt><dd><p>Print a summary of command line options.
123</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-V</span></dt><dd><p>Prints the program version number.
124</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s &lt;configuration file&gt;</span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the
125configuration details required by the server. The
126information in this file includes server-specific
127information such as what printcap file to use, as well
128as descriptions of all the services that the server is
129to provide. See <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> for more information.
130The default configuration file name is determined at
131compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debuglevel=level</span></dt><dd><p><em class="replaceable"><code>level</code></em> is an integer
132from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is
133not specified is zero.</p><p>The higher this value, the more detail will be
134logged to the log files about the activities of the
135server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious
136warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for
137day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of
138information about operations carried out.</p><p>Levels above 1 will generate considerable
139amounts of log data, and should only be used when
140investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for
141use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log
142data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</p><p>Note that specifying this parameter here will
143override the <a class="indexterm" name="id301024"></a> parameter
144in the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l|--logfile=logdirectory</span></dt><dd><p>Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension
145<code class="constant">".progname"</code> will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient,
146log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the client.
147</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id301057"></a><h2>NOTES</h2><p>This command may be used only by root.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id301067"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of
148 the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id301078"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="smbpasswd.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbpasswd</span>(5)</span></a>, <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a></p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id301101"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
149 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
150 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
151 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The pdbedit manpage was written by Simo Sorce and Jelmer Vernooij.</p></div></div></body></html>
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