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-<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>pdbedit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" title="pdbedit"><a name="pdbedit.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>pdbedit &#8212; manage the SAM database (Database of Samba Users)</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">pdbedit</code> [-a] [-b passdb-backend] [-c account-control] [-C value] [-d debuglevel] [-D drive] [-e passdb-backend] [-f fullname] [--force-initialized-passwords] [-g] [-h homedir] [-i passdb-backend] [-I domain] [-K] [-L ] [-m] [-M SID|RID] [-N description] [-P account-policy] [-p profile] [--policies-reset] [-r] [-s configfile] [-S script] [-t] [--time-format] [-u username] [-U SID|RID] [-v] [-V] [-w] [-x] [-y] [-z] [-Z]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a name="id265860"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a class="citerefentry" href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts
- stored in the sam database and can only be run by root.</p><p>The pdbedit tool uses 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 added
- without changing the tool).</p><p>There are five main ways to use pdbedit: adding a user account,
- removing a user account, modifying a user account, listing user
- accounts, importing users accounts.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="OPTIONS"><a name="id265892"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-L|--list</span></dt><dd><p>This option lists all the user accounts
- present in the users database.
- This option prints a list of user/uid pairs separated by
- the ':' character.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -L</code></p><pre class="programlisting">
-sorce:500:Simo Sorce
-samba:45:Test User
-</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-v|--verbose</span></dt><dd><p>This option enables the verbose listing format.
- It causes pdbedit to list the users in the database, printing
- out the account fields in a descriptive format.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -L -v</code></p><pre class="programlisting">
----------------
-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
-</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-w|--smbpasswd-style</span></dt><dd><p>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
- <code class="filename">smbpasswd</code> file format. (see the
- <a class="citerefentry" href="smbpasswd.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbpasswd</span>(5)</span></a> for details)</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -L -w</code></p><pre class="programlisting">
-sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:
- D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:
- [UX ]:LCT-00000000:
-samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:
- BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:
- [UX ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D:
-</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-u|--user username</span></dt><dd><p>This option specifies the username to be
- used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing).
- It is <span class="emphasis"><em>required</em></span> in add, remove and modify
- operations and <span class="emphasis"><em>optional</em></span> in list
- operations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-f|--fullname fullname</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
- modifying a user account. It will specify the user's full
- name. </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-f "Simo Sorce"</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-h|--homedir homedir</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
- modifying a user account. It will specify the user's home
- directory network path.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"</code>
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-D|--drive drive</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
- modifying a user account. It will specify the windows drive
- letter to be used to map the home directory.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-D "H:"</code>
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-S|--script script</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
- modifying a user account. It will specify the user's logon
- script path.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-S "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"</code>
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-p|--profile profile</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
- modifying a user account. It will specify the user's profile
- directory.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"</code>
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-M|'--machine SID' SID|rid</span></dt><dd><p>
- This option can be used while adding or modifying a machine account. It
- will specify the machines' new primary group SID (Security Identifier) or
- rid. </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-M S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-1201</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-U|'--user SID' SID|rid</span></dt><dd><p>
- This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account. It
- will specify the users' new SID (Security Identifier) or
- rid. </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-U S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-5004</code></p><p>Example: <code class="literal">'--user SID' S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-5004</code></p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-U 5004</code></p><p>Example: <code class="literal">'--user SID' 5004</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-c|--account-control account-control</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or modifying a user
- account. It will specify the users' account control property. Possible flags are listed below.
- </p><p>
- </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>N: No password required</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>D: Account disabled</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>H: Home directory required</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>T: Temporary duplicate of other account</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>U: Regular user account</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>M: MNS logon user account</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>W: Workstation Trust Account</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>S: Server Trust Account</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>L: Automatic Locking</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>X: Password does not expire</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>I: Domain Trust Account</p></li></ul></div><p>
- </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-c "[X ]"</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-K|--kickoff-time</span></dt><dd><p>This option is used to modify the kickoff
- time for a certain user. Use "never" as argument to set the
- kickoff time to unlimited.
- </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -K never user</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-a|--create</span></dt><dd><p>This option is used to add a user into the
- database. This command needs a user name specified with
- the -u switch. When adding a new user, pdbedit will also
- ask for the password to be used.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -a -u sorce</code>
-</p><pre class="programlisting">new password:
-retype new password
-</pre><p>
-</p><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>pdbedit does not call the unix password syncronisation
- script if <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#UNIXPASSWORDSYNC" target="_top">unix password sync</a>
- has been set. It only updates the data in the Samba
- user database.
- </p><p>If you wish to add a user and synchronise the password
- that immediately, use <code class="literal">smbpasswd</code>'s <code class="option">-a</code> option.
- </p></div></dd><dt><span class="term">-t|--password-from-stdin</span></dt><dd><p>This option causes pdbedit to read the password
- from standard input, rather than from /dev/tty (like the
- <code class="literal">passwd(1)</code> program does). The password has
- to be submitted twice and terminated by a newline each.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-r|--modify</span></dt><dd><p>This option is used to modify an existing user
- in the database. This command needs a user name specified with the -u
- switch. Other options can be specified to modify the properties of
- the specified user. This flag is kept for backwards compatibility, but
- it is no longer necessary to specify it.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-m|--machine</span></dt><dd><p>This option may only be used in conjunction
- with the <em class="parameter"><code>-a</code></em> option. It will make
- pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user
- account (-u username will provide the machine name).</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks</code>
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-x|--delete</span></dt><dd><p>This option causes pdbedit to delete an account
- from the database. It needs a username specified with the
- -u switch.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -x -u bob</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-i|--import passdb-backend</span></dt><dd><p>Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users
- than the one specified in smb.conf. Can be used to import data into
- your local user database.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
- another.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old
- </code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-e|--export passdb-backend</span></dt><dd><p>Exports all currently available users to the
- specified password database backend.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
- another and will ease backing up.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-g|--group</span></dt><dd><p>If you specify <em class="parameter"><code>-g</code></em>,
- then <em class="parameter"><code>-i in-backend -e out-backend</code></em>
- applies to the group mapping instead of the user database.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
- another and will ease backing up.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-b|--backend passdb-backend</span></dt><dd><p>Use a different default passdb backend. </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -b xml:/root/pdb-backup.xml -l</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-P|--account-policy account-policy</span></dt><dd><p>Display an account policy</p><p>Valid policies are: minimum password age, reset count minutes, disconnect time,
- user must logon to change password, password history, lockout duration, min password length,
- maximum password age and bad lockout attempt.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"</code></p><pre class="programlisting">
-account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0
-</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-C|--value account-policy-value</span></dt><dd><p>Sets an account policy to a specified value.
- This option may only be used in conjunction
- with the <em class="parameter"><code>-P</code></em> option.
- </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3</code></p><pre class="programlisting">
-account policy value for bad lockout attempt was 0
-account policy value for bad lockout attempt is now 3
-</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-y|--policies</span></dt><dd><p>If you specify <em class="parameter"><code>-y</code></em>,
- then <em class="parameter"><code>-i in-backend -e out-backend</code></em>
- applies to the account policies instead of the user database.</p><p>This option will allow to migrate account policies from their default
- tdb-store into a passdb backend, e.g. an LDAP directory server.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -y -i tdbsam: -e ldapsam:ldap://my.ldap.host</code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">--force-initialized-passwords</span></dt><dd><p>This option forces all users to change their
- password upon next login.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-N|--account-desc description</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
- modifying a user account. It will specify the user's description
- field.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-N "test description"</code>
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-Z|--logon-hours-reset</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
- modifying a user account. It will reset the user's allowed logon
- hours. A user may login at any time afterwards.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-Z</code>
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-z|--bad-password-count-reset</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
- modifying a user account. It will reset the stored bad login
- counter from a specified user.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-z</code>
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">--policies-reset</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used to reset the general
- password policies stored for a domain to their
- default values.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">--policies-reset</code>
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-I|--domain</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or
- modifying a user account. It will specify the user's domain field.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-I "MYDOMAIN"</code>
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">--time-format</span></dt><dd><p>This option is currently not being used.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-h|--help</span></dt><dd><p>Print a summary of command line options.
-</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debuglevel=level</span></dt><dd><p><em class="replaceable"><code>level</code></em> is an integer
-from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is
-not specified is 0.</p><p>The 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.</p><p>Levels 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.</p><p>Note that specifying this parameter here will
-override the <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#" target="_top"></a> parameter
-in the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-V|--version</span></dt><dd><p>Prints the program version number.
-</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s|--configfile &lt;configuration file&gt;</span></dt><dd><p>The 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 <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> for more information.
-The default configuration file name is determined at
-compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l|--log-basename=logdirectory</span></dt><dd><p>Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension
-<code class="constant">".progname"</code> will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient,
-log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the client.
-</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="NOTES"><a name="id307996"></a><h2>NOTES</h2><p>This command may be used only by root.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="VERSION"><a name="id308006"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3 of
- the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="SEE ALSO"><a name="id308016"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a class="citerefentry" href="smbpasswd.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbpasswd</span>(5)</span></a>, <a class="citerefentry" href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a></p></div><div class="refsect1" title="AUTHOR"><a name="id308038"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>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.</p><p>The pdbedit manpage was written by Simo Sorce and Jelmer Vernooij.</p></div></div></body></html>