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20.TH "SWAT" 8 "" "" ""
21.SH NAME
22swat \- Samba Web Administration Tool
23.SH "SYNOPSIS"
24.ad l
25.hy 0
26.HP 5
27\fBswat\fR [\-s\ <smb\ config\ file>] [\-a] [\-P]
28.ad
29.hy
30
31.SH "DESCRIPTION"
32
33.PP
34This tool is part of the \fBsamba\fR(7) suite\&.
35
36.PP
37\fBswat\fR allows a Samba administrator to configure the complex \fBsmb\&.conf\fR(5) file via a Web browser\&. In addition, a \fBswat\fR configuration page has help links to all the configurable options in the \fIsmb\&.conf\fR file allowing an administrator to easily look up the effects of any change\&.
38
39.PP
40\fBswat\fR is run from \fBinetd\fR
41
42.SH "OPTIONS"
43
44.TP
45\-s smb configuration file
46The 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 \fBswat\fR 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 \fIsmb\&.conf\fR for more information\&.
47
48.TP
49\-a
50This option disables authentication and places \fBswat\fR in demo mode\&. In that mode anyone will be able to modify the \fIsmb\&.conf\fR file\&.
51
52\fBWARNING: Do NOT enable this option on a production server\&. \fR
53
54.TP
55\-P
56This option restricts read\-only users to the password management page\&. \fBswat\fR can then be used to change user passwords without users seeing the "View" and "Status" menu buttons\&.
57
58.TP
59\-V
60Prints the program version number\&.
61
62.TP
63\-s <configuration file>
64The 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 \fIsmb\&.conf\fR for more information\&. The default configuration file name is determined at compile time\&.
65
66.TP
67\-d|\-\-debuglevel=level
68\fIlevel\fR is an integer from 0 to 10\&. The default value if this parameter is not specified is zero\&.
69
70The 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\&.
71
72Levels 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\&.
73
74Note that specifying this parameter here will override the parameter in the \fIsmb\&.conf\fR file\&.
75
76.TP
77\-l|\-\-logfile=logdirectory
78Base 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\&.
79
80.TP
81\-h|\-\-help
82Print a summary of command line options\&.
83
84.SH "INSTALLATION"
85
86.PP
87Swat 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\&.
88
89.PP
90After you compile SWAT you need to run \fBmake install \fR to install the \fBswat\fR binary and the various help files and images\&. A default install would put these in:
91
92.TP 3
93\(bu
94/usr/local/samba/sbin/swat
95.TP
96\(bu
97/usr/local/samba/swat/images/*
98.TP
99\(bu
100/usr/local/samba/swat/help/*
101.LP
102
103.SS "Inetd Installation"
104
105.PP
106You need to edit your \fI/etc/inetd\&.conf \fR and \fI/etc/services\fR to enable SWAT to be launched via \fBinetd\fR\&.
107
108.PP
109In \fI/etc/services\fR you need to add a line like this:
110
111.PP
112\fBswat 901/tcp\fR
113
114.PP
115Note for NIS/YP and LDAP users \- you may need to rebuild the NIS service maps rather than alter your local \fI /etc/services\fR file\&.
116
117.PP
118the 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\fBinetd\fR daemon)\&.
119
120.PP
121In \fI/etc/inetd\&.conf\fR you should add a line like this:
122
123.PP
124\fBswat stream tcp nowait\&.400 root /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat swat\fR
125
126.PP
127Once you have edited \fI/etc/services\fR and \fI/etc/inetd\&.conf\fR you need to send a HUP signal to inetd\&. To do this use \fBkill \-1 PID \fR where PID is the process ID of the inetd daemon\&.
128
129.SH "LAUNCHING"
130
131.PP
132To launch SWAT just run your favorite web browser and point it at "http://localhost:901/"\&.
133
134.PP
135Note 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\&.
136
137.SH "FILES"
138
139.TP
140\fI/etc/inetd\&.conf\fR
141This file must contain suitable startup information for the meta\-daemon\&.
142
143.TP
144\fI/etc/services\fR
145This file must contain a mapping of service name (e\&.g\&., swat) to service port (e\&.g\&., 901) and protocol type (e\&.g\&., tcp)\&.
146
147.TP
148\fI/usr/local/samba/lib/smb\&.conf\fR
149This 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 \fI /usr/samba/lib/smb\&.conf\fR and \fI/etc/smb\&.conf \fR\&. This file describes all the services the server is to make available to clients\&.
150
151.SH "WARNINGS"
152
153.PP
154\fBswat\fR 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 \fI smb\&.conf\fR then back it up or don't use swat!
155
156.SH "VERSION"
157
158.PP
159This man page is correct for version 3\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.
160
161.SH "SEE ALSO"
162
163.PP
164\fBinetd(5)\fR, \fBsmbd\fR(8), \fBsmb\&.conf\fR(5)
165
166.SH "AUTHOR"
167
168.PP
169The 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\&.
170
171.PP
172The 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\&.
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