Using Samba, Second Edition

Name

pdbedit

Synopsis

This program, new to Samba 3.0, can be used to manage accounts that are held in a SAM database. The implementation of the database can be any of the types supported by Samba, including the smbpasswd file, LDAP, NIS+ and the tdb database library. The user must be the superuser to use this tool.

Command synopsis

pdbedit [options]

Options

-a

Adds the user specified by the -u option to the SAM database. The command issues a prompt for the user’s password.

-d drive_letter

Sets the Windows drive letter to which to map the user’s home directory. The drive letter should be specified as a letter followed by a colon—e.g., H:.

-D debug_level

Sets the debug (sometimes called logging) level. The level can range from 0 to 10. Debug level 0 logs only the most important messages. Level 1 is normal, and levels 3 and above are primarily for debugging.

-e pwdb_backend

Exports the user account database to another format, written to the specified location. Used for migrating from one type of account database to another. The pwdb_backend argument is specified in the format of a database type, followed by a colon, then the location of the database. For example, to export the existing account database to an smbpasswd database in the file /usr/local/samba/private/smbpw, pwdb_backend would be specified as smbpasswd:/usr/local/samba/private/smbpw. The allowable database types are smbpasswd, smbpasswd nua, tdbsam, tdbsam nua, ldapsam, ldapsam_nua, and plugin.

-f full_name

Sets the full name ...