docs-xml/manpages/pdbedit.8.xml

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   3 <refentry id="pdbedit.8">
   4
   5 <refmeta>
   6         <refentrytitle>pdbedit</refentrytitle>
   7         <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
   8         <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
   9         <refmiscinfo class="manual">System Administration tools</refmiscinfo>
  10         <refmiscinfo class="version">3.6</refmiscinfo>
  11 </refmeta>
  12
  13
  14 <refnamediv>
  15         <refname>pdbedit</refname>
  16         <refpurpose>manage the SAM database (Database of Samba Users)</refpurpose>
  17 </refnamediv>
  18
  19 <refsynopsisdiv>
  20         <cmdsynopsis>
  21                 <command>pdbedit</command>
  22                 <arg choice="opt">-a</arg>
  23                 <arg choice="opt">-b passdb-backend</arg>
  24                 <arg choice="opt">-c account-control</arg>
  25                 <arg choice="opt">-C value</arg>
  26                 <arg choice="opt">-d debuglevel</arg>
  27                 <arg choice="opt">-D drive</arg>
  28                 <arg choice="opt">-e passdb-backend</arg>
  29                 <arg choice="opt">-f fullname</arg>
  30                 <arg choice="opt">--force-initialized-passwords</arg>
  31                 <arg choice="opt">-g</arg>
  32                 <arg choice="opt">-h homedir</arg>
  33                 <arg choice="opt">-i passdb-backend</arg>
  34                 <arg choice="opt">-I domain</arg>
  35                 <arg choice="opt">-K</arg>
  36                 <arg choice="opt">-L </arg>
  37                 <arg choice="opt">-m</arg>
  38                 <arg choice="opt">-M SID|RID</arg>
  39                 <arg choice="opt">-N description</arg>
  40                 <arg choice="opt">-P account-policy</arg>
  41                 <arg choice="opt">-p profile</arg>
  42                 <arg choice="opt">--policies-reset</arg>
  43                 <arg choice="opt">-r</arg>
  44                 <arg choice="opt">-s configfile</arg>
  45                 <arg choice="opt">-S script</arg>
  46                 <arg choice="opt">-t</arg>
  47                 <arg choice="opt">--time-format</arg>
  48                 <arg choice="opt">-u username</arg>
  49                 <arg choice="opt">-U SID|RID</arg>
  50                 <arg choice="opt">-v</arg>
  51                 <arg choice="opt">-V</arg>
  52                 <arg choice="opt">-w</arg>
  53                 <arg choice="opt">-x</arg>
  54                 <arg choice="opt">-y</arg>
  55                 <arg choice="opt">-z</arg>
  56                 <arg choice="opt">-Z</arg>
  57         </cmdsynopsis>
  58 </refsynopsisdiv>
  59
  60 <refsect1>
  61         <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
  62
  63         <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
  64         <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
  65
  66         <para>The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts
  67         stored in the sam database and can only be run by root.</para>
  68
  69         <para>The pdbedit tool uses the passdb modular interface and is
  70         independent from the kind of users database used (currently there
  71         are smbpasswd, ldap, nis+ and tdb based and more can be added
  72         without changing the tool).</para>
  73
  74         <para>There are five main ways to use pdbedit: adding a user account,
  75         removing a user account, modifying a user account, listing user
  76         accounts, importing users accounts.</para>
  77 </refsect1>
  78
  79 <refsect1>
  80         <title>OPTIONS</title>
  81         <variablelist>
  82                 <varlistentry>
  83                 <term>-L|--list</term>
  84                 <listitem><para>This option lists all the user accounts
  85                 present in the users database.
  86                 This option prints a list of user/uid pairs separated by
  87                 the ':' character.</para>
  88                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -L</command></para>
  89                 <para><programlisting>
  90 sorce:500:Simo Sorce
  91 samba:45:Test User
  92 </programlisting></para>
  93                 </listitem>
  94                 </varlistentry>
  95
  96
  97
  98                 <varlistentry>
  99                 <term>-v|--verbose</term>
 100                 <listitem><para>This option enables the verbose listing format.
 101                 It causes pdbedit to list the users in the database, printing
 102                 out the account fields in a descriptive format.</para>
 103
 104                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -L -v</command></para>
 105                 <para><programlisting>
 106 ---------------
 107 username:       sorce
 108 user ID/Group:  500/500
 109 user RID/GRID:  2000/2001
 110 Full Name:      Simo Sorce
 111 Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\sorce
 112 HomeDir Drive:  H:
 113 Logon Script:   \\BERSERKER\netlogon\sorce.bat
 114 Profile Path:   \\BERSERKER\profile
 115 ---------------
 116 username:       samba
 117 user ID/Group:  45/45
 118 user RID/GRID:  1090/1091
 119 Full Name:      Test User
 120 Home Directory: \\BERSERKER\samba
 121 HomeDir Drive:
 122 Logon Script:
 123 Profile Path:   \\BERSERKER\profile
 124 </programlisting></para>
 125                 </listitem>
 126                 </varlistentry>
 127
 128
 129
 130                 <varlistentry>
 131                 <term>-w|--smbpasswd-style</term>
 132                 <listitem><para>This option sets the "smbpasswd" listing format.
 133                 It will make pdbedit list the users in the database, printing
 134                 out the account fields in a format compatible with the
 135                 <filename>smbpasswd</filename> file format. (see the
 136                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbpasswd</refentrytitle>
 137                 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for details)</para>
 138
 139                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -L -w</command></para>
 140                 <programlisting>
 141 sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:
 142           D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:
 143           [UX         ]:LCT-00000000:
 144 samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:
 145           BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:
 146           [UX         ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D:
 147 </programlisting>
 148                 </listitem>
 149                 </varlistentry>
 150
 151
 152                 <varlistentry>
 153                 <term>-u|--user username</term>
 154                 <listitem><para>This option specifies the username to be
 155                 used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing).
 156                 It is <emphasis>required</emphasis> in add, remove and modify
 157                 operations and <emphasis>optional</emphasis> in list
 158                 operations.</para>
 159                 </listitem>
 160                 </varlistentry>
 161
 162                 <varlistentry>
 163                 <term>-f|--fullname fullname</term>
 164                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 165                 modifying a user account. It will specify the user's full
 166                 name. </para>
 167
 168                 <para>Example: <command>-f "Simo Sorce"</command></para>
 169                 </listitem>
 170                 </varlistentry>
 171
 172                 <varlistentry>
 173                 <term>-h|--homedir homedir</term>
 174                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 175                 modifying a user account. It will specify the user's home
 176                 directory network path.</para>
 177
 178                 <para>Example: <command>-h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"</command>
 179                 </para>
 180                 </listitem>
 181                 </varlistentry>
 182
 183                 <varlistentry>
 184                 <term>-D|--drive drive</term>
 185                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 186                 modifying a user account. It will specify the windows drive
 187                 letter to be used to map the home directory.</para>
 188
 189                 <para>Example: <command>-D "H:"</command>
 190                 </para>
 191                 </listitem>
 192                 </varlistentry>
 193
 194
 195                 <varlistentry>
 196                 <term>-S|--script script</term>
 197                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 198                 modifying a user account. It will specify the user's logon
 199                 script path.</para>
 200
 201                 <para>Example: <command>-S "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"</command>
 202                 </para>
 203                 </listitem>
 204                 </varlistentry>
 205
 206
 207                 <varlistentry>
 208                 <term>-p|--profile profile</term>
 209                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 210                 modifying a user account. It will specify the user's profile
 211                 directory.</para>
 212
 213                 <para>Example: <command>-p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"</command>
 214                 </para>
 215                 </listitem>
 216                 </varlistentry>
 217
 218                 <varlistentry>
 219                 <term>-M|'--machine SID' SID|rid</term>
 220                 <listitem><para>
 221                 This option can be used while adding or modifying a machine account. It
 222                 will specify the machines' new primary group SID (Security Identifier) or
 223                 rid. </para>
 224
 225                 <para>Example: <command>-M S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-1201</command></para>
 226                 </listitem>
 227                 </varlistentry>
 228
 229                 <varlistentry>
 230                 <term>-U|'--user SID' SID|rid</term>
 231                 <listitem><para>
 232                 This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account. It
 233                 will specify the users' new SID (Security Identifier) or
 234                 rid. </para>
 235
 236                 <para>Example: <command>-U S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-5004</command></para>
 237                 <para>Example: <command>'--user SID' S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-5004</command></para>
 238                 <para>Example: <command>-U 5004</command></para>
 239                 <para>Example: <command>'--user SID' 5004</command></para>
 240                 </listitem>
 241                 </varlistentry>
 242
 243                 <varlistentry>
 244                 <term>-c|--account-control account-control</term>
 245                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or modifying a user
 246                                 account. It will specify the users' account control property. Possible flags are listed below.
 247         </para>
 248
 249         <para>
 250                 <itemizedlist>
 251                         <listitem><para>N: No password required</para></listitem>
 252                         <listitem><para>D: Account disabled</para></listitem>
 253                         <listitem><para>H: Home directory required</para></listitem>
 254                         <listitem><para>T: Temporary duplicate of other account</para></listitem>
 255                         <listitem><para>U: Regular user account</para></listitem>
 256                         <listitem><para>M: MNS logon user account</para></listitem>
 257                         <listitem><para>W: Workstation Trust Account</para></listitem>
 258                         <listitem><para>S: Server Trust Account</para></listitem>
 259                         <listitem><para>L: Automatic Locking</para></listitem>
 260                         <listitem><para>X: Password does not expire</para></listitem>
 261                         <listitem><para>I: Domain Trust Account</para></listitem>
 262                 </itemizedlist>
 263         </para>
 264
 265                 <para>Example: <command>-c "[X          ]"</command></para>
 266                 </listitem>
 267                 </varlistentry>
 268
 269                 <varlistentry>
 270                 <term>-K|--kickoff-time</term>
 271                 <listitem><para>This option is used to modify the kickoff
 272                 time for a certain user. Use "never" as argument to set the
 273                 kickoff time to unlimited.
 274                 </para>
 275                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -K never user</command></para>
 276                 </listitem>
 277                 </varlistentry>
 278
 279                 <varlistentry>
 280                 <term>-a|--create</term>
 281                 <listitem><para>This option is used to add a user into the
 282                 database. This command needs a user name specified with
 283                 the -u switch. When adding a new user, pdbedit will also
 284                 ask for the password to be used.</para>
 285
 286                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -a -u sorce</command>
 287 <programlisting>new password:
 288 retype new password
 289 </programlisting>
 290 </para>
 291
 292                 <note><para>pdbedit does not call the unix password syncronisation
 293                                 script if <smbconfoption name="unix password sync"/>
 294                                 has been set. It only updates the data in the Samba
 295                                 user database.
 296                         </para>
 297
 298                         <para>If you wish to add a user and synchronise the password
 299                                 that immediately, use <command>smbpasswd</command>'s <option>-a</option> option.
 300                         </para>
 301                 </note>
 302                 </listitem>
 303                 </varlistentry>
 304
 305                 <varlistentry>
 306                 <term>-t|--password-from-stdin</term>
 307                 <listitem><para>This option causes pdbedit to read the password
 308                 from standard input, rather than from /dev/tty (like the
 309                 <command>passwd(1)</command> program does).  The password has
 310                 to be submitted twice and terminated by a newline each.</para>
 311                 </listitem>
 312                 </varlistentry>
 313
 314                 <varlistentry>
 315                 <term>-r|--modify</term>
 316                 <listitem><para>This option is used to modify an existing user
 317                 in the database. This command needs a user name specified with the -u
 318                 switch. Other options can be specified to modify the properties of
 319                 the specified user. This flag is kept for backwards compatibility, but
 320                 it is no longer necessary to specify it.
 321                 </para></listitem>
 322                 </varlistentry>
 323
 324                 <varlistentry>
 325                 <term>-m|--machine</term>
 326                 <listitem><para>This option may only be used in conjunction
 327                 with the <parameter>-a</parameter> option. It will make
 328                 pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user
 329                 account (-u username will provide the machine name).</para>
 330
 331                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks</command>
 332                 </para>
 333                 </listitem>
 334                 </varlistentry>
 335
 336
 337                 <varlistentry>
 338                 <term>-x|--delete</term>
 339                 <listitem><para>This option causes pdbedit to delete an account
 340                 from the database. It needs a username specified with the
 341                 -u switch.</para>
 342
 343                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -x -u bob</command></para>
 344                 </listitem>
 345                 </varlistentry>
 346
 347
 348                 <varlistentry>
 349                 <term>-i|--import passdb-backend</term>
 350                 <listitem><para>Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users
 351                 than the one specified in smb.conf. Can be used to import data into
 352                 your local user database.</para>
 353
 354                 <para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
 355                 another.</para>
 356
 357                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old
 358                 </command></para>
 359                 </listitem>
 360                 </varlistentry>
 361
 362                 <varlistentry>
 363                 <term>-e|--export passdb-backend</term>
 364                 <listitem><para>Exports all currently available users to the
 365                 specified password database backend.</para>
 366
 367                 <para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
 368                 another and will ease backing up.</para>
 369
 370                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup</command></para>
 371                 </listitem>
 372                 </varlistentry>
 373
 374                 <varlistentry>
 375                 <term>-g|--group</term>
 376                 <listitem><para>If you specify <parameter>-g</parameter>,
 377                 then <parameter>-i in-backend -e out-backend</parameter>
 378                 applies to the group mapping instead of the user database.</para>
 379
 380                 <para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
 381                 another and will ease backing up.</para>
 382
 383                 </listitem>
 384                 </varlistentry>
 385
 386                 <varlistentry>
 387                 <term>-b|--backend passdb-backend</term>
 388                 <listitem><para>Use a different default passdb backend. </para>
 389
 390                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -b xml:/root/pdb-backup.xml -l</command></para>
 391                 </listitem>
 392                 </varlistentry>
 393
 394                 <varlistentry>
 395                 <term>-P|--account-policy account-policy</term>
 396                 <listitem><para>Display an account policy</para>
 397                 <para>Valid policies are: minimum password age, reset count minutes, disconnect time,
 398                 user must logon to change password, password history, lockout duration, min password length,
 399                 maximum password age and bad lockout attempt.</para>
 400
 401                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"</command></para>
 402 <para><programlisting>
 403 account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0
 404 </programlisting></para>
 405
 406                 </listitem>
 407                 </varlistentry>
 408
 409
 410                 <varlistentry>
 411                 <term>-C|--value account-policy-value</term>
 412                 <listitem><para>Sets an account policy to a specified value.
 413                 This option may only be used in conjunction
 414                 with the <parameter>-P</parameter> option.
 415                 </para>
 416
 417                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3</command></para>
 418 <para><programlisting>
 419 account policy value for bad lockout attempt was 0
 420 account policy value for bad lockout attempt is now 3
 421 </programlisting></para>
 422                 </listitem>
 423                 </varlistentry>
 424
 425                 <varlistentry>
 426                 <term>-y|--policies</term>
 427                 <listitem><para>If you specify <parameter>-y</parameter>,
 428                 then <parameter>-i in-backend -e out-backend</parameter>
 429                 applies to the account policies instead of the user database.</para>
 430
 431                 <para>This option will allow to migrate account policies from their default
 432                 tdb-store into a passdb backend, e.g. an LDAP directory server.</para>
 433
 434                 <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -y -i tdbsam: -e ldapsam:ldap://my.ldap.host</command></para>
 435
 436                 </listitem>
 437                 </varlistentry>
 438
 439                 <varlistentry>
 440                 <term>--force-initialized-passwords</term>
 441                 <listitem><para>This option forces all users to change their
 442                                 password upon next login.
 443                 </para>
 444                 </listitem>
 445                 </varlistentry>
 446
 447                 <varlistentry>
 448                 <term>-N|--account-desc description</term>
 449                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 450                 modifying a user account. It will specify the user's description
 451                 field.</para>
 452
 453                 <para>Example: <command>-N "test description"</command>
 454                 </para>
 455                 </listitem>
 456                 </varlistentry>
 457
 458                 <varlistentry>
 459                 <term>-Z|--logon-hours-reset</term>
 460                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 461                 modifying a user account. It will reset the user's allowed logon
 462                 hours. A user may login at any time afterwards.</para>
 463
 464                 <para>Example: <command>-Z</command>
 465                 </para>
 466                 </listitem>
 467                 </varlistentry>
 468
 469                 <varlistentry>
 470                 <term>-z|--bad-password-count-reset</term>
 471                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 472                 modifying a user account. It will reset the stored bad login
 473                 counter from a specified user.</para>
 474
 475                 <para>Example: <command>-z</command>
 476                 </para>
 477                 </listitem>
 478                 </varlistentry>
 479
 480                 <varlistentry>
 481                 <term>--policies-reset</term>
 482                 <listitem><para>This option can be used to reset the general
 483                                 password policies stored for a domain to their
 484                                 default values.</para>
 485                 <para>Example: <command>--policies-reset</command>
 486                 </para>
 487                 </listitem>
 488                 </varlistentry>
 489
 490                 <varlistentry>
 491                 <term>-I|--domain</term>
 492                 <listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
 493                 modifying a user account. It will specify the user's domain field.</para>
 494
 495                 <para>Example: <command>-I "MYDOMAIN"</command>
 496                 </para>
 497                 </listitem>
 498                 </varlistentry>
 499
 500                 <varlistentry>
 501                 <term>--time-format</term>
 502                 <listitem><para>This option is currently not being used.</para>
 503                 </listitem>
 504                 </varlistentry>
 505
 506                 &stdarg.help;
 507                 &stdarg.server.debug;
 508                 &popt.common.samba;
 509
 510         </variablelist>
 511 </refsect1>
 512
 513
 514 <refsect1>
 515         <title>NOTES</title>
 516
 517         <para>This command may be used only by root.</para>
 518 </refsect1>
 519
 520
 521 <refsect1>
 522         <title>VERSION</title>
 523
 524         <para>This man page is correct for version 3 of
 525         the Samba suite.</para>
 526 </refsect1>
 527
 528 <refsect1>
 529         <title>SEE ALSO</title>
 530         <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbpasswd</refentrytitle>
 531         <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
 532         <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>
 533 </refsect1>
 534
 535 <refsect1>
 536         <title>AUTHOR</title>
 537
 538         <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
 539         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
 540         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
 541         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
 542
 543         <para>The pdbedit manpage was written by Simo Sorce and Jelmer Vernooij.</para>
 544
 545 </refsect1>
 546
 547 </refentry>