pdbedit

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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, remov-
ing 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 pdbe-
dit 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
---------------
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 oper-
ation requested (listing, adding, removing) It is required in
add, remove and modify operations and optional in list opera-
tions.

-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:"

-s script
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 com-
mand 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

NOTES
This command may be used only by root.

VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.