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PDBEDIT(8)


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
		       ---------------
		       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:"

  -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 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


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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