1<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 V1.74.0"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="pdbedit.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>pdbedit — manage the SAM database (Database of Samba Users)</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><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" lang="en"><a name="id2483670"></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 2 stored in the sam database and can only be run by root.</p><p>The pdbedit tool uses the passdb modular interface and is 3 independent from the kind of users database used (currently there 4 are smbpasswd, ldap, nis+ and tdb based and more can be added 5 without changing the tool).</p><p>There are five main ways to use pdbedit: adding a user account, 6 removing a user account, modifing a user account, listing user 7 accounts, importing users accounts.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483707"></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 8 present in the users database. 9 This option prints a list of user/uid pairs separated by 10 the ':' character.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -L</code></p><pre class="programlisting"> 11sorce:500:Simo Sorce 12samba:45:Test User 13</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-v|--verbose</span></dt><dd><p>This option enables the verbose listing format. 14 It causes pdbedit to list the users in the database, printing 15 out the account fields in a descriptive format.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -L -v</code></p><pre class="programlisting"> 16--------------- 17username: sorce 18user ID/Group: 500/500 19user RID/GRID: 2000/2001 20Full Name: Simo Sorce 21Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\sorce 22HomeDir Drive: H: 23Logon Script: \\BERSERKER\netlogon\sorce.bat 24Profile Path: \\BERSERKER\profile 25--------------- 26username: samba 27user ID/Group: 45/45 28user RID/GRID: 1090/1091 29Full Name: Test User 30Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\samba 31HomeDir Drive: 32Logon Script: 33Profile Path: \\BERSERKER\profile 34</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-w|--smbpasswd-style</span></dt><dd><p>This option sets the "smbpasswd" listing format. 35 It will make pdbedit list the users in the database, printing 36 out the account fields in a format compatible with the 37 <code class="filename">smbpasswd</code> file format. (see the 38 <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"> 39sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE: 40 D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C: 41 [UX ]:LCT-00000000: 42samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE: 43 BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490: 44 [UX ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D: 45</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-u|--user username</span></dt><dd><p>This option specifies the username to be 46 used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing). 47 It is <span class="emphasis"><em>required</em></span> in add, remove and modify 48 operations and <span class="emphasis"><em>optional</em></span> in list 49 operations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-f|--fullname fullname</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or 50 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's full 51 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 52 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's home 53 directory network path.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"</code> 54 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-D|--drive drive</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or 55 modifing a user account. It will specify the windows drive 56 letter to be used to map the home directory.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-D "H:"</code> 57 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-S|--script script</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or 58 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's logon 59 script path.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-S "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"</code> 60 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-p|--profile profile</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or 61 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's profile 62 directory.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"</code> 63 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-M|'--machine SID' SID|rid</span></dt><dd><p> 64 This option can be used while adding or modifying a machine account. It 65 will specify the machines' new primary group SID (Security Identifier) or 66 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> 67 This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account. It 68 will specify the users' new SID (Security Identifier) or 69 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 70 account. It will specify the users' account control property. Possible flags are listed below. 71 </p><p> 72 </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>N: No password required</p></li><li><p>D: Account disabled</p></li><li><p>H: Home directory required</p></li><li><p>T: Temporary duplicate of other account</p></li><li><p>U: Regular user account</p></li><li><p>M: MNS logon user account</p></li><li><p>W: Workstation Trust Account</p></li><li><p>S: Server Trust Account</p></li><li><p>L: Automatic Locking</p></li><li><p>X: Password does not expire</p></li><li><p>I: Domain Trust Account</p></li></ul></div><p> 73 </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 74 time for a certain user. Use "never" as argument to set the 75 kickoff time to unlimited. 76 </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 77 database. This command needs a user name specified with 78 the -u switch. When adding a new user, pdbedit will also 79 ask for the password to be used.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -a -u sorce</code> 80</p><pre class="programlisting">new password: 81retype new password 82</pre><p> 83</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>pdbedit does not call the unix password syncronisation 84 script if <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#UNIXPASSWORDSYNC" target="_top">unix password sync</a> 85 has been set. It only updates the data in the Samba 86 user database. 87 </p><p>If you wish to add a user and synchronise the password 88 that immediately, use <code class="literal">smbpasswd</code>'s <code class="option">-a</code> option. 89 </p></div></dd><dt><span class="term">-t|--password-from-stdin</span></dt><dd><p>This option causes pdbedit to read the password 90 from standard input, rather than from /dev/tty (like the 91 <code class="literal">passwd(1)</code> program does). The password has 92 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 93 in the database. This command needs a user name specified with the -u 94 switch. Other options can be specified to modify the properties of 95 the specified user. This flag is kept for backwards compatibility, but 96 it is no longer necessary to specify it. 97 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-m|--machine</span></dt><dd><p>This option may only be used in conjunction 98 with the <em class="parameter"><code>-a</code></em> option. It will make 99 pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user 100 account (-u username will provide the machine name).</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks</code> 101 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-x|--delete</span></dt><dd><p>This option causes pdbedit to delete an account 102 from the database. It needs a username specified with the 103 -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 104 than the one specified in smb.conf. Can be used to import data into 105 your local user database.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to 106 another.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old 107 </code></p></dd><dt><span class="term">-e|--export passdb-backend</span></dt><dd><p>Exports all currently available users to the 108 specified password database backend.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to 109 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>, 110 then <em class="parameter"><code>-i in-backend -e out-backend</code></em> 111 applies to the group mapping instead of the user database.</p><p>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to 112 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, 113 user must logon to change password, password history, lockout duration, min password length, 114 maximum password age and bad lockout attempt.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"</code></p><pre class="programlisting"> 115account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0 116</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-C|--value account-policy-value</span></dt><dd><p>Sets an account policy to a specified value. 117 This option may only be used in conjunction 118 with the <em class="parameter"><code>-P</code></em> option. 119 </p><p>Example: <code class="literal">pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3</code></p><pre class="programlisting"> 120account policy value for bad lockout attempt was 0 121account policy value for bad lockout attempt is now 3 122</pre></dd><dt><span class="term">-y|--policies</span></dt><dd><p>If you specify <em class="parameter"><code>-y</code></em>, 123 then <em class="parameter"><code>-i in-backend -e out-backend</code></em> 124 applies to the account policies instead of the user database.</p><p>This option will allow to migrate account policies from their default 125 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 126 password upon next login. 127 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-N|--account-desc description</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or 128 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's description 129 field.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-N "test description"</code> 130 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-Z|--logon-hours-reset</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or 131 modifing a user account. It will reset the user's allowed logon 132 hours. A user may login at any time afterwards.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-Z</code> 133 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-z|--bad-password-count-reset</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or 134 modifing a user account. It will reset the stored bad login 135 counter from a specified user.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-z</code> 136 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">--policies-reset</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used to reset the general 137 password policies stored for a domain to their 138 default values.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">--policies-reset</code> 139 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-I|--domain</span></dt><dd><p>This option can be used while adding or 140 modifing a user account. It will specify the user's domain field.</p><p>Example: <code class="literal">-I "MYDOMAIN"</code> 141 </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. 142</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debuglevel=level</span></dt><dd><p><em class="replaceable"><code>level</code></em> is an integer 143from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is 144not specified is 0.</p><p>The higher this value, the more detail will be 145logged to the log files about the activities of the 146server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious 147warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for 148day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of 149information about operations carried out.</p><p>Levels above 1 will generate considerable 150amounts of log data, and should only be used when 151investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for 152use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log 153data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</p><p>Note that specifying this parameter here will 154override the <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#" target="_top"></a> parameter 155in 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. 156</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s|--configfile <configuration file></span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the 157configuration details required by the server. The 158information in this file includes server-specific 159information such as what printcap file to use, as well 160as descriptions of all the services that the server is 161to provide. See <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> for more information. 162The default configuration file name is determined at 163compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l|--log-basename=logdirectory</span></dt><dd><p>Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension 164<code class="constant">".progname"</code> will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient, 165log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the client. 166</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2532991"></a><h2>NOTES</h2><p>This command may be used only by root.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2533001"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3 of 167 the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2533012"></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" lang="en"><a name="id2533034"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities 168 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed 169 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 170 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> 171