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<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>pdbedit</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>pdbedit</refname>
<refpurpose>manage the SAM database</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>pdbedit</command>
<arg choice="opt">-l</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-v</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-w</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-u username</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-f fullname</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-h homedir</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-d drive</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-s script</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-p profile</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-a</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-m</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-x</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-i file</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>This tool is part of the <ulink url="samba.7.html">
Samba</ulink> suite.</para>
<para>The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts
stored in the sam database and can be run only by root.</para>
<para>The pdbedit tool use 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 addedd
without changing the tool).</para>
<para>There are five main ways to use pdbedit: adding a user account,
removing a user account, modifing a user account, listing user
accounts, importing users accounts.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>OPTIONS</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>-l</term>
<listitem><para>This option list all the user accounts
present in the users database.
This option prints a list of user/uid pairs separated by
the ':' character.</para>
<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -l</command></para>
<para><programlisting>
sorce:500:Simo Sorce
samba:45:Test User
</programlisting></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-v</term>
<listitem><para>This option sets the verbose listing format.
It will make pdbedit list the users in the database printing
out the account fields in a descriptive format.</para>
<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -l -v</command></para>
<para><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
</programlisting></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-w</term>
<listitem><para>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
<filename>smbpasswd</filename> file format. (see the <ulink
url="smbpasswd.5.html"><filename>smbpasswd(5)</filename></ulink> for details)</para>
<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -l -w</command></para>
<para><programlisting>
sorce:500:508818B733CE64BEAAD3B435B51404EE:D2A2418EFC466A8A0F6B1DBB5C3DB80C:[UX ]:LCT-00000000:
samba:45:0F2B255F7B67A7A9AAD3B435B51404EE:BC281CE3F53B6A5146629CD4751D3490:[UX ]:LCT-3BFA1E8D:
</programlisting></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-u username</term>
<listitem><para>This option specifies that the username to be
used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing)
It is <emphasis>required</emphasis> in add, remove and modify
operations and <emphasis>optional</emphasis> in list
operations.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-f fullname</term>
<listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
modifing a user account. It will specify the user's full
name. </para>
<para>Example: <command>-f "Simo Sorce"</command></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-h homedir</term>
<listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
modifing a user account. It will specify the user's home
directory network path.</para>
<para>Example: <command>-h "\\\\BERSERKER\\sorce"</command>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-d drive</term>
<listitem><para>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.</para>
<para>Example: <command>-d "H:"</command>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-s script</term>
<listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
modifing a user account. It will specify the user's logon
script path.</para>
<para>Example: <command>-s "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon\\sorce.bat"</command>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-p profile</term>
<listitem><para>This option can be used while adding or
modifing a user account. It will specify the user's profile
directory.</para>
<para>Example: <command>-p "\\\\BERSERKER\\netlogon"</command>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-a</term>
<listitem><para>This option is used to add a user into the
database. This command need the user name be specified with
the -u switch. When adding a new user pdbedit will also
ask for the password to be used</para>
<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -a -u sorce</command>
<programlisting>new password:
retype new password</programlisting>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-m</term>
<listitem><para>This option may only be used in conjunction
with the <parameter>-a</parameter> option. It will make
pdbedit to add a machine trust account instead of a user
account (-u username will provide the machine name).</para>
<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -a -m -u w2k-wks</command>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-x</term>
<listitem><para>This option causes pdbedit to delete an account
from the database. It need the username be specified with the
-u switch.</para>
<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -x -u bob</command></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-i file</term>
<listitem><para>This command is used to import a smbpasswd
file into the database.</para>
<para>This option will ease migration from the plain smbpasswd
file database to more powerful backend databases like tdb and
ldap.</para>
<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -i /etc/smbpasswd.old</command>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>NOTES</title>
<para>This command may be used only by root.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>VERSION</title>
<para>This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
the Samba suite.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para><ulink url="smbpasswd.8.html">smbpasswd(8)</ulink>,
<ulink url="samba.7.html">samba(7)</ulink>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>AUTHOR</title>
<para>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.</para>
<para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</para>
</refsect1>
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