- -L
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.
Example: pdbedit -L
sorce:500:Simo Sorce
samba:45:Test User
- -v
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.
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 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"
- -G SID|rid
This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account. It
will specify the users' new primary group SID (Security Identifier) or
rid.
Example: -G S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-1201
- -U SID|rid
This option can be used while adding or modifying a user account. It
will specify the users' new SID (Security Identifier) or
rid.
Example: -U S-1-5-21-2447931902-1787058256-3961074038-5004
- -c account-control
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.
N: No password required
D: Account disabled
H: Home directory required
T: Temporary duplicate of other account
U: Regular user account
M: MNS logon user account
W: Workstation Trust Account
S: Server Trust Account
L: Automatic Locking
X: Password does not expire
I: Domain Trust Account
Example: -c "[X ]"
- -a
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.
Example: pdbedit -a -u sorce
new password:
retype new password
Note
pdbedit does not call the unix password syncronisation
script if unix password sync
has been set. It only updates the data in the Samba
user database.
If you wish to add a user and synchronise the password
that immediately, use smbpasswd's -a option.
- -t, --password-from-stdin
This option causes pdbedit to read the password
from standard input, rather than from /dev/tty (like the
passwd(1) program does). The password has
to be submitted twice and terminated by a newline each.
- -r
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.
- -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 needs a username specified with the
-u switch.
Example: pdbedit -x -u bob
- -i passdb-backend
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.
This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
another.
Example: pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old
- -e passdb-backend
Exports all currently available users to the
specified password database backend.
This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
another and will ease backing up.
Example: pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup
- -g
If you specify -g,
then -i in-backend -e out-backend
applies to the group mapping instead of the user database.
This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
another and will ease backing up.
- -b passdb-backend
Use a different default passdb backend.
Example: pdbedit -b xml:/root/pdb-backup.xml -l
- -P account-policy
Display an account policy
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.
Example: pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt"
account policy value for bad lockout attempt is 0
- -C account-policy-value
Sets an account policy to a specified value.
This option may only be used in conjunction
with the -P option.
Example: pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3
account policy value for bad lockout attempt was 0
account policy value for bad lockout attempt is now 3
- -y
If you specify -y,
then -i in-backend -e out-backend
applies to the account policies instead of the user database.
This option will allow to migrate account policies from their default
tdb-store into a passdb backend, e.g. an LDAP directory server.
Example: pdbedit -y -i tdbsam: -e ldapsam:ldap://my.ldap.host
- -h|--help
Print a summary of command line options.
- -V
Prints the program version number.
- -s <configuration file>
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 smb.conf for more information.
The default configuration file name is determined at
compile time.
- -d|--debuglevel=level
level is an integer
from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is
not specified is zero.
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.
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.
Note that specifying this parameter here will
override the parameter
in the smb.conf file.
- -l|--logfile=logdirectory
Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension
".progname" will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient,
log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the client.