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NAME

       pdbedit - manage the SAM database

SYNOPSIS

       pdbedit [ -l ]  [ -v ]  [ -w ]  [ -u username ]	[ -f fullname ]  [ -h homedir ]  [ -d drive ]  [ -s script ]  [ -p profile ]  [ -a ]  [ -m
       ]  [ -x ]  [ -i file ]

DESCRIPTION

       This tool is part of the  Samba suite.

       The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts stored in the sam database and can be run only by root.

       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).

       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.

OPTIONS

       -l     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.

	      Example: pdbedit -l

			sorce:500:Simo Sorce
			samba:45:Test User

       -v     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.

	      Example: pdbedit -l -v

			---------------
			username:	sorce
			user ID/Group:	500/500
			user RID/GRID:	2000/2001
			Full Name:	Simo Sorce
			Home Directory: \BERSERKERsorce
			HomeDir Drive:	H:
			Logon Script:	\BERSERKER
etlogonsorce.bat
			Profile Path:	\BERSERKERprofile
			---------------
			username:	samba
			user ID/Group:	45/45
			user RID/GRID:	1090/1091
			Full Name:	Test User
			Home Directory: \BERSERKERsamba
			HomeDir Drive:
			Logon Script:
			Profile Path:	\BERSERKERprofile

       -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  that 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"

       -a     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

	      Example: pdbedit -a -u sorce

	      new password:
			retype new password

       -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 need the username be specified with the -u switch.

	      Example: pdbedit -x -u bob

       -i file
	      This command is used to import a smbpasswd file into the database.

	      This option will ease migration from the plain smbpasswd file database to more powerful backend databases like tdb and ldap.

	      Example: pdbedit -i /etc/smbpasswd.old

NOTES

       This command may be used only by root.

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

       smbpasswd(8) samba(7)

AUTHOR

       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.

       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 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
       release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter

								 19 November 2002							PDBEDIT(8)