[Samba] pdbedit and profiles
Jonathan Johnson
jon at sutinen.com
Thu Jun 16 05:27:27 GMT 2005
I had the same issue. To resolve, I had to convert from smbpasswd to
tdbsam for my passdb backend (wasn't running LDAP). This is because
smbpasswd does NOT support the extended parameters you see in pdbedit.
Then I was able to change the parameters. tdbsam is a better passdb
backend than smbpasswd (more configurable), it just won't let you use a
text editor on the file. ;-)
From a post by John Terpstra (
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-October/075558.html ):
If you have your accounts in smbpasswd and you want to migrate them to
tdbsam:
In smb.conf:
passdb backend = smbpasswd, tdbsam
Execute:
pdbedit -i smbpasswd -e tdbsam
And so on. After migration you can delete the backend that you no longer
need to use from the "passdb backend" parameter line.
--Jonathan Johnson
Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
>For a test I tried to do this:
>
>
>pdbedit -u "ya-1" -p="\\\\cybserver\\netlogon"
>
>It spewed out this :
>
>
>Unix username: ya-1
>NT username:
>Account Flags: [U ]
>User SID: S-1-5-21-4008386108-3466510086-266964780-2002
>Primary Group SID: S-1-5-21-4008386108-3466510086-266964780-2003
>Full Name:
>Home Directory:
>HomeDir Drive:
>Logon Script: logon.bat
>Profile Path: \\cybserver\profile\ya-1
>Domain: CYBRARYN
>Account desc:
>Workstations:
>Munged dial:
>Logon time: 0
>Logoff time: Mon, 18 Jan 2038 22:14:07 GMT
>Kickoff time: Mon, 18 Jan 2038 22:14:07 GMT
>Password last set: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 11:29:34 GMT
>Password can change: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 11:29:34 GMT
>Password must change: Mon, 18 Jan 2038 22:14:07 GMT
>Last bad password : 0
>Bad password count : 0
>Logon hours : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
>
>
>as you can see the profile path is not correct. and I check that the
>ya-1 user was a vaild smb user. I can log on to the domain with them
>and write to shares and use different domain resources.
>
>
>And as far as why it does show the NT username I dont know.
>
>On 6/14/05, Collen <collen at zeist.hermanjordan.nl> wrote:
>
>
>>What error do you get returned ??
>>(if none, boost your debug level in the conf)
>>can samba read/write to the passwd backend?
>>what does not work ? (coz here it does work)..
>>
>>Greets.
>>
>>Collen
>>
>>Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am using the standard smbpasswd, I think thats a backend.
>>>
>>>On 6/13/05, Tom Skeren <tms3 at fsklaw.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>That did not work.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>What passdb are you using? LDAP TDB?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On 6/13/05, Collen <collen at zeist.hermanjordan.nl> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>pdbedit -u "username" -p="\\\\server\\path"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Collen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hello all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Could someone give me the command line to edit the profile path of a users?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I have tried this with no results.
>>>>>>>"pdbedit -u someuser -p "\\\\server\\path"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>There has to be better documentation.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
--
--Jon Johnson
Sutinen Consulting, Inc.
www.sutinen.com
(360) 270-9317 cell
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