[Samba] where samba store user's passwords ?

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Fri Nov 2 22:03:53 GMT 2007


On Friday 02 November 2007 09:27, Hubert Choma wrote:
> I have got tdbsam as backend in smb.conf
> passdb backend = tdbsam
>
> When user change password from windows XP file passdb.tdb schould change
> date because was updated, but I have still the same date IX 18 10:30.
>
>
> [root at serwer private]# ls -al
> razem 76
> drwx------ 2 root root  4096 IX 11 20:25 .
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root  4096 XI  2 15:14 ..
> -rw------- 1 root root 36864 IX 25 07:57 passdb.tdb

The above (passdb.tdb) is the file in which they are stored.

> -rw------- 1 root root  8192 VII 24 07:57 schannel_store.tdb
> -rw------- 1 root root  8192 IX 18 10:30 secrets.tdb
> -rw------- 1 root root  7161 IX 19 15:28 smbpasswd
>
> user changed password 31 X 2007 08:08:16 but date of the passdb.tdb file
> is still the same  (IX 18 2007 ).
>
> pdbedit -Lv praktykanci
> Unix username:        praktykanci
> NT username:
> Account Flags:        [U          ]
> User SID:             S-1-5-21-2794518228-724393910-221713885-2096
> Primary Group SID:    S-1-5-21-2794518228-724393910-221713885-513
> Full Name:
> Home Directory:
> HomeDir Drive:
> Logon Script:         praktykanci.CMD
> Password last set:    Śr, 31 X 2007 08:08:16 CET
> Password can change:  So, 19 I 2008 08:08:16 CET
> Password must change: Wt, 29 I 2008 08:08:16 CET
>
> Where samba with tdbsam store passwords ??
passdb.tdb

> And how can i check whether user really changed password in tdbsam
> backend ?? How can I dump passwords ?
pdbedit -Lw

> How can I convert passdb.tdb to smbpasswd style ??
ppdbedit -e smbpasswd -i tdbsam

> Please help
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