| 1 | Local Samba users and groups 1.0.4
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| 2 | ==================================
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| 3 |
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| 4 | With smbusers.exe you can
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| 5 | - add users
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| 6 | - remove users
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| 7 | - add groups
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| 8 | - remove groups
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| 9 | - map (unix) groups to Samba groups (or as they are called: NT groups)
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| 10 | - add users to groups
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| 11 | - remove users from groups
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| 12 | - view all (and edit some) user properties
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| 13 | - configure Samba usermap feature
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| 14 | - configure builtin Samba policies
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| 15 |
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| 16 | Specify --user=yourusername%yourpassword on the commandline to bypass the
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| 17 | initial login dialog. If you want to create a WPS object that performs
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| 18 | automatic login use --user=yourusername|yourpassword .
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| 19 |
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| 20 | Currently smbusers.exe checks several files for errors and corrects them:
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| 21 |
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| 22 | - master.passwd : duplicate entries, UID mismatch and missing user records
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| 23 | - Samba users db : UID mismatch, corrupt Smb user (detected only)
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| 24 | - group : duplicate entries, missing users, nonexisting users,
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| 25 | missing trailing comma
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| 26 | - Samba groups : Detect when Samba has forgotten about its groups and only
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| 27 | the mapping is still there
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| 28 |
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| 29 | Editable fields on the users and groups page (alt-left-click into the field)
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| 30 | can savely be edited, press "Save" to save to disk.
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| 31 |
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| 32 | You can perform the following tasks with smbusers.exe:
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| 33 |
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| 34 | "Users" page:
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| 35 |
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| 36 | Right click on the columns titles to customize the layout.
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| 37 |
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| 38 | NOTE: The preconfigured layout is recommended, in case you are not
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| 39 | interested into more technical details.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | NOTE: There is an alternative icon view on the users page, which does not
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| 42 | have a particular purpose at this time.
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| 43 |
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| 44 | NOTE: Version 1.0.0 optionally also stores the crypted password in
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| 45 | master.passwd. You have to turn on this feature manually.
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| 46 |
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| 47 | Right click to bring up a context menu.
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| 48 |
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| 49 | - "Add users": Create new user accounts, these are added both to Samba, the
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| 50 | kLIBC files and SWAT. In case the selected user is only a kLIBC
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| 51 | user instead of adding a new user the kLIBC user info is shown
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| 52 | in order to add Samba user information. This behavior is not
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| 53 | intuitive and might be changed in future releases.
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| 54 | - "Remove users": The opposite of the above.
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| 55 |
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| 56 | - "Join group": Add an existing user to an existing group
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| 57 | - "Leave group": The opposite of the above.
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| 58 |
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| 59 | Doubleclick on a user brings up Samba user properties dialogue.
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| 60 |
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| 61 | This is another (pseudo) notebook with 3 pages:
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| 62 |
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| 63 | Account flags: Here you can change several user account flags.
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| 64 |
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| 65 | Profile data: Several of these can be changed now by alt-left-click into
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| 66 | the value fields (like on users and group page).
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| 67 |
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| 68 | Group memberships: Show in which groups the current user is a member.
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| 69 |
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| 70 | Uncheck the "Show editable fields only" to show all fields.
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| 71 |
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| 72 | In addition you can modify values using the "pdbedit console" found on this
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| 73 | window.
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| 74 |
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| 75 | NOTE: Due to a bug in the OS/2 Samba code, you MUST NOT add the first guest
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| 76 | account to any group at the moment - doing so will make Samba loose
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| 77 | the whole group information upon the next restart (see Samba Ticket #59
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| 78 | for details). If this happened to you, stop Samba, delete the file
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| 79 | group_mapping.tdb in the lock directory and run the rebuild script
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| 80 | (below to get Samba groups back).
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| 81 |
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| 82 | "Groups" page:
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| 83 |
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| 84 | Right click on the columns titles to customize the layout.
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| 85 | NOTE: The preconfigured layout is recommended, in case you are not
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| 86 | interested into more technical details.
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| 87 |
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| 88 | Right click to bring up a context menu.
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| 89 |
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| 90 | - "Add group": Create a new group, both for Samba and kLIBC.
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| 91 | - "Map group": Tie a new Samba group to an existing kLIBC group.
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| 92 | - "Delete group": Opposite of "add group"
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| 93 | - "Unmap group": Opposite of "map group"
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| 94 | - "Script": Create a script of the current Samba groups in order to recreate
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| 95 | groups in case of an error (created for exploring Ticket #59). You
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| 96 | still can create the rebuild script in case the group information
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| 97 | is already lost as part of the information is still accessible).
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| 98 | Do not forget to remove the offending guest account also from the
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| 99 | user list in the etc\group file.
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| 100 | - "Well-known": As long as no groups exists, this will create the well-known
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| 101 | Samba groups that should be present in every Samba installation.
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| 102 |
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| 103 | "Policies" page
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| 104 |
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| 105 | The Policies page found in Version 0.9.0 or better acts as a front end to
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| 106 | pdbedit.exe policy editing capabilities. The drop down box lists all available
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| 107 | policies and allows to update their values. In addition you may reset all
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| 108 | policies to their default values.
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| 109 |
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| 110 | "Settings" page
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| 111 |
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| 112 | The Settings page found in Version 0.5.0 or better has the following options:
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| 113 |
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| 114 | "Debug": Previously found on the main window, opens a console window and
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| 115 | shows useful log information
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| 116 |
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| 117 | "Fix errors": smbusers.exe detects several errors in master.passwd and group
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| 118 | files and optionally coorects them. This option was present in
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| 119 | older versions of smbusers.exe, just not changeable. You should
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| 120 | leave it on normally.
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| 121 |
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| 122 | "Syncronize GECOS with Samba Full name": The GECOS field in master.passwd
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| 123 | usually holds the full name of the user, much like the Samba Full name
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| 124 | field. However per definition the GECOS field also may hold address
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| 125 | data and so on. If you want to store address data in the GECOS field
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| 126 | disable this option.
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| 127 |
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| 128 | "Syncronize primary GID": This rather experimental option makes sure that the
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| 129 | GID field in master.passwd is the same as the RID stored by Samba.
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| 130 | Usually that is the case anyway. This option is useful on older
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| 131 | installations, where the GID field was set to UID. Samba internally
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| 132 | set the RID to 513 (users) in that case. This option takes care of
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| 133 | this situation and changes the GID appropriately.
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| 134 | NOTE: The "guest" account is not touched, as this would trigger a
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| 135 | Ticket #59 situation (groups broken).
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| 136 |
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| 137 | NOTE: If smbusers.exe detects an error during startup (inspect the console
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| 138 | for "ERROR could not find ...." messages), it will not let you save any
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| 139 | changes to disk, as this might make the situation worse than it is.
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| 140 |
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| 141 | NOTE: Make sure you have read and understood Ticket #59 at
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| 142 | http://svn.netlabs.org/samba before using smbusers.exe!
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| 143 |
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| 144 | NOTE: Ticket #59 seems to be gone in Samba 3.3.x!
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| 145 |
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| 146 | NOTE: smbusers.exe needs rexxini.dll, drctl017.dll, rxcrypt.dll and vrobj.dll
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| 147 | somewhere in the LIBPATH. In case you installed a recent Samba WPI this
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| 148 | is requirement is fullfilled.
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| 149 |
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| 150 | NOTE: Version 0.5.0 or better are designed to work with the new usermod.cmd
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| 151 | script (enclosed for conveniance), which replaces useradd.cmd,
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| 152 | userren.cmd and userdel.cmd. Don't forget to update your smb.conf
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| 153 | (look into usermod.cmd to see what changes need to be done!).
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| 154 |
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| 155 | NOTE: In case it is not possible to change smb.conf there are forwarder
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| 156 | scripts included that translate the old calling convention into the
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| 157 | new one.
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| 158 |
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| 159 |
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| 160 | How to get back to a working state in case of a pwd_mkdb.exe error:
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| 161 |
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| 162 | 1. Copy %UNIXROOT%\ETC\master.passwd.bak to master.passwd
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| 163 | 2. Copy %UNIXROOT%\ETC\group.bak to group
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| 164 | 3. Remove %UNIXROOT%\ETC\*db.tmp
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| 165 | 4. Run pwd_mkdb.exe -d %UNIXROOT%\ETC %UNIXROOT%\ETC\master.passwd
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| 166 | Running usermod.cmd with parameters does exactly that.
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| 167 |
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| 168 | You should be back now.
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| 169 |
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| 170 | Bug reports appreciated.
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| 171 | mailto:herwig.bauernfeind@bitwiseworks.com
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