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-.TH "PDBEDIT" "8" "28 January 2002" "" ""
+.TH "PDBEDIT" "8" "24 April 2002" "" ""
.SH NAME
pdbedit \- manage the SAM database
.SH SYNOPSIS
.sp
-\fBpdbedit\fR [ \fB-l\fR ] [ \fB-v\fR ] [ \fB-w\fR ] [ \fB-u username\fR ] [ \fB-f fullname\fR ] [ \fB-h homedir\fR ] [ \fB-d drive\fR ] [ \fB-s script\fR ] [ \fB-p profile\fR ] [ \fB-a\fR ] [ \fB-m\fR ] [ \fB-x\fR ] [ \fB-i file\fR ]
+\fBpdbedit\fR [ \fB-l\fR ] [ \fB-v\fR ] [ \fB-w\fR ] [ \fB-u username\fR ] [ \fB-f fullname\fR ] [ \fB-h homedir\fR ] [ \fB-d drive\fR ] [ \fB-s script\fR ] [ \fB-p profile\fR ] [ \fB-a\fR ] [ \fB-m\fR ] [ \fB-x\fR ] [ \fB-i passdb-backend\fR ] [ \fB-e passdb-backend\fR ] [ \fB-D debuglevel\fR ]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This tool is part of the Sambasuite.
Example: \fBpdbedit -x -u bob\fR
.TP
-\fB-i file\fR
-This command is used to import a smbpasswd
-file into the database.
+\fB-i passdb-backend\fR
+Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users than the one specified in smb.conf.
-This option will ease migration from the plain smbpasswd
-file database to more powerful backend databases like tdb and
-ldap.
+This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another.
-Example: \fBpdbedit -i /etc/smbpasswd.old\fR
+Example: \fBpdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old -e tdbsam:/etc/samba/passwd.tdb\fR
+.TP
+\fB-e passdb-backend\fR
+Export all currently available users to the specified password database backend.
+
+This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another and will ease backupping
+
+Example: \fBpdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup\fR
.SH "NOTES"
.PP
This command may be used only by root.
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