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NAME
pdbedit - manage the SAM database
SYNOPSIS
pdbedit [ -l ] [ -v ] [ -w ] [ -u username ] [ -f
fullname ] [ -h homedir ] [ -d drive ] [ -s script ] [
-p profile ] [ -a ] [ -b ] [ -m ] [ -x ] [ -i file ]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the Samba suite.
The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts
stored in the sam database and can be run only by root.
The pdbedit tool use the passdb modular interface and is
independent from the kind of users database used (currently
there are smbpasswd, ldap, nis+ and tdb based and more can
be addedd without changing the tool).
There are five main ways to use pdbedit: adding a user
account, removing a user account, modifing a user account,
listing user accounts, importing users accounts.
OPTIONS
-l This option list all the user accounts present in the
users database. This option prints a list of user/uid
pairs separated by the ':' character.
Example: pdbedit-l
sorce:500:Simo Sorce
samba:45:Test User
-v This option sets the verbose listing format. It will
make pdbedit list the users in the database printing
out the account fields in a descriptive format.
Example: pdbedit-l -v
---------------
username: sorce
user ID/Group: 500/500
user RID/GRID: 2000/2001
Full Name: Simo Sorce
Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\sorce
HomeDir Drive: H:
Logon Script: \\BERSERKER\netlogon\sorce.bat
Profile Path: \\BERSERKER\profile
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username: samba
user ID/Group: 45/45
user RID/GRID: 1090/1091
Full Name: Test User
Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\samba
HomeDir Drive:
Logon Script:
Profile Path: \\BERSERKER\profile
-w This option sets the "smbpasswd" listing format. It
will make pdbedit list the users in the database
printing out the account fields in a format compatible
with the smbpasswd file format. (see the smbpasswd(5)
for details)
Example: pdbedit-l -w
sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:[UX ]:LCT-00000000:
samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:[UX ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D:
-u username
This option specifies that the username to be used for
the operation requested (listing, adding, removing) It
is required in add, remove and modify operations and
optional in list operations.
-f fullname
This option can be used while adding or modifing a user
account. It will specify the user's full name.
Example: -f "Simo Sorce"
-h homedir
This option can be used while adding or modifing a user
account. It will specify the user's home directory
network path.
Example: -h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"
-d drive
This option can be used while adding or modifing a user
account. It will specify the windows drive letter to be
used to map the home directory.
Example: -d "H:"
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This option can be used while adding or modifing a user
account. It will specify the user's logon script path.
Example: -s "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"
-p profile
This option can be used while adding or modifing a user
account. It will specify the user's profile directory.
Example: -p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"
-a This option is used to add a user into the database.
This command need the user name be specified with the
-u switch. When adding a new user pdbedit will also ask
for the password to be used
Example: pdbedit-a -u sorce
new password:
retype new password
-b This option causes pdbedit to read the password from
standard input, rather than from /dev/tty.
Example: echo -e "secret\nsecret\n" | pdbedit-a -b -u
sorce
-m This option may only be used in conjunction with the -a
option. It will make pdbedit to add a machine trust
account instead of a user account (-u username will
provide the machine name).
Example: pdbedit-a -m -u w2k-wks
-x This option causes pdbedit to delete an account from
the database. It need the username be specified with
the -u switch.
Example: pdbedit-x -u bob
-i file
This command is used to import a smbpasswd file into
the database.
This option will ease migration from the plain
smbpasswd file database to more powerful backend
databases like tdb and ldap.
Example: pdbedit-i /etc/smbpasswd.old
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NOTES
This command may be used only by root.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
smbpasswd(8)samba(7)
AUTHOR
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.
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/
<URL: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
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