HP CIFS Server 3.0k Administrator's Guide version A.02.04

• Migrate group accounts.
• Manage account policies.
• Manage domain access policy settings.
For detailed information on the pdbedit command, refer to the pdbedit man page, SWAT or
The Official Samba HOWTO and Reference Guide.
The pdbedit tool performs its operations on the data store specified by the passdb backend
parameter in the smb.conf file. If an LDAP directory is to be used, then the this parameter is
set to ldapsam:ldap://<LDAP server name>. If the Samba user account database file,
smbpasswd, is used, this parameter is set to smbpasswd.
If you manage user accounts in an LDAP directory server, an existing POSIX user must already
exists in the LDAP directory before you run the pdbedit -a command to add the corresponding
Samba user and its sambaSamAccount information required for HP CIFS Server user
authentication.
If the POSIX user does not already exist in the LDAP directory server, you must first add the
POSIX user entry with the LDAP directory tools (such as ldapmodify). You can use the
ldapmodify tool to add, modify or delete a POSIX user in an LDAP directory server. For more
information on how to add POSIX user accounts to the LDAP Directory server, see the “Creating
Samba Users in the Directory” (page 105) section in the Chapter 6, “LDAP Integration Support”.
Syntax
pdbedit [options]
where options can be any of the following:
-L, –list
Lists all the user accounts in the users database. This option
displays a list of uid/user pairs information by the “:”
character.
-v, –verbose Enables the verbose listing format. It causes pdbedit to
list the users in the database, display the account fields in
a descriptive format.
-w, –smbpasswd-style This option enables pdbedit to list the users in the
database, display the account fields in the smbpasswd
style file format.
-u, –user=username
Specifies the user name to be used for the operation
requested (listing, adding, modifying and removing). It is
required for add, remove and modify operations and is
optional for list operations.
-N, –account-desc=ARG
Specifies a machine account description to be set.
-f, –fullname=ARG
Specifies the user's full name. This option can be used while
adding or modifying a user account.
-h, –homedir=ARG
Sets the user's home directory. This option can be used
while adding or modifying a user account.
-D, –drive=ARG
Specifies the windows driver letter to be used to map the
home directory. This option can be used while adding or
modifying a user account.
-S, –script=ARG
Sets the user's logon script path. This option can be used
while adding or modifying a user account.
-P, –profile=ARG
Specifies the user's profile directory. This option can be
used while adding or modifying a user account.
-I, –domain=ARG
Specifies the user's domain name.
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