[Samba] Where is the tdbsam password database file?

Tim Largy tim.largy at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 01:55:23 GMT 2007


I'm curious to know where the tdbsam password database file is kept on
my Fedora 7 system. Using the unmodified smb.conf file that shipped
with Fedora 7, I've enabled users using smbpasswd, and successfully
accessed shares. I just can't figure out where the password database
is located:

[root at box ~]# service smb start
[root at box ~]# setsebool samba_enable_home_dirs on
[root at box ~]# touch timestamp
[root at box ~]# smbpasswd -a
[root at box ~]# find /etc /var -newer timestamp

I'm surprised that find doesn't find anything.

My smb.conf file has the following relevant entries in the global section:

        workgroup = MYGROUP
        server string = Samba Server Version %v
        security = user
        passdb backend = tdbsam

Here is information about my Samba binary:

[root at box ~]# smbd -b
Build environment:
   Built by:    kojibuilder at xenbuilder1.fedora.redhat.com
   Built on:    Tue Sep 11 14:21:08 EDT 2007
   Built using: gcc
   Build host:  Linux xenbuilder1.fedora.redhat.com
2.6.20-1.2952.fc6xen #1 SMP Wed May 16 18:37:05 EDT 2007 i686 athlon
i386 GNU/Linux
   SRCDIR:      /builddir/build/BUILD/samba-3.0.26a/source
   BUILDDIR:    /builddir/build/BUILD/samba-3.0.26a/source

Paths:
   SBINDIR: /usr/sbin
   BINDIR: /usr/bin
   SWATDIR: /usr/share/swat
   CONFIGFILE: /etc/samba/smb.conf
   LOGFILEBASE: /var/log/samba
   LMHOSTSFILE: /etc/samba/lmhosts
   LIBDIR: /usr/lib/samba
   SHLIBEXT: so
   LOCKDIR: /var/lib/samba
   PIDDIR: /var/run
   SMB_PASSWD_FILE: /var/lib/samba/private/smbpasswd
   PRIVATE_DIR: /var/lib/samba/private

 System Headers:
   HAVE_SYS_ACL_H
   HAVE_SYS_CDEFS_H
   HAVE_SYS_FCNTL_H
   HAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H
   HAVE_SYS_IPC_H
   HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H
   HAVE_SYS_MOUNT_H
   HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H
   HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H
   HAVE_SYS_QUOTA_H
   HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H
   HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H
   HAVE_SYS_SHM_H
   HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H
   HAVE_SYS_STATFS_H
   HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H
   HAVE_SYS_STAT_H
   HAVE_SYS_SYSCALL_H
   HAVE_SYS_SYSLOG_H
   HAVE_SYS_SYSMACROS_H
   HAVE_SYS_TIME_H
   HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
   HAVE_SYS_UIO_H
   HAVE_SYS_UNISTD_H
   HAVE_SYS_UN_H
   HAVE_SYS_VFS_H
   HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H
   HAVE_SYS_XATTR_H

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   HAVE_ACL_LIBACL_H
   HAVE_AIO_H
   HAVE_ALLOCA_H
   HAVE_ARPA_INET_H
   HAVE_ASM_TYPES_H
   HAVE_ASM_UNISTD_H
   HAVE_ATTR_XATTR_H
   HAVE_CTYPE_H
   HAVE_DIRENT_H
   HAVE_DLFCN_H
   HAVE_EXECINFO_H
   HAVE_FCNTL_H
   HAVE_FLOAT_H
   HAVE_FNMATCH_H
   HAVE_GLOB_H
   HAVE_GRP_H
   HAVE_GSSAPI_GSSAPI_GENERIC_H
   HAVE_GSSAPI_GSSAPI_H
   HAVE_GSSAPI_H
   HAVE_KRB5_H
   HAVE_KRB5_LOCATE_PLUGIN_H
   HAVE_LANGINFO_H
   HAVE_LASTLOG_H
   HAVE_LBER_H
   HAVE_LDAP_H
   HAVE_LIMITS_H
   HAVE_LINUX_INOTIFY_H
   HAVE_LOCALE_H
   HAVE_MEMORY_H
   HAVE_MNTENT_H
   HAVE_NETDB_H
   HAVE_NETINET_IN_H
   HAVE_NETINET_IN_SYSTM_H
   HAVE_NETINET_IP_H
   HAVE_NETINET_TCP_H
   HAVE_NET_IF_H
   HAVE_NSS_H
   HAVE_PWD_H
   HAVE_READLINE_HISTORY_H
   HAVE_READLINE_READLINE_H
   HAVE_RPCSVC_NIS_H
   HAVE_RPCSVC_YPCLNT_H
   HAVE_RPCSVC_YP_PROT_H
   HAVE_RPC_RPC_H
   HAVE_SECURITY_PAM_APPL_H
   HAVE_SECURITY_PAM_EXT_H
   HAVE_SECURITY_PAM_MODULES_H
   HAVE_SECURITY__PAM_MACROS_H
   HAVE_SETJMP_H
   HAVE_SHADOW_H
   HAVE_STDARG_H
   HAVE_STDBOOL_H
   HAVE_STDINT_H
   HAVE_STDIO_H
   HAVE_STDLIB_H
   HAVE_STRINGS_H
   HAVE_STRING_H
   HAVE_SYSCALL_H
   HAVE_SYSLOG_H
   HAVE_TERMIOS_H
   HAVE_TERMIO_H
   HAVE_TIME_H
   HAVE_UNISTD_H
   HAVE_UTIME_H

 UTMP Options:
   HAVE_GETUTMPX
   HAVE_UTMPX_H
   HAVE_UTMP_H
   HAVE_UT_UT_ADDR
   HAVE_UT_UT_EXIT
   HAVE_UT_UT_HOST
   HAVE_UT_UT_ID
   HAVE_UT_UT_NAME
   HAVE_UT_UT_PID
   HAVE_UT_UT_TIME
   HAVE_UT_UT_TV
   HAVE_UT_UT_TYPE
   HAVE_UT_UT_USER
   PUTUTLINE_RETURNS_UTMP
   WITH_UTMP

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   HAVE_AP_OPTS_USE_SUBKEY
   HAVE_ASPRINTF
   HAVE_ASPRINTF_DECL
   HAVE_ATEXIT
   HAVE_BACKTRACE_SYMBOLS
   HAVE_BER_SCANF
   HAVE_BOOL
   HAVE_BZERO
   HAVE_C99_VSNPRINTF
   HAVE_CHMOD
   HAVE_CHOWN
   HAVE_CHROOT
   HAVE_COMPARISON_FN_T
   HAVE_COMPILER_WILL_OPTIMIZE_OUT_FNS
   HAVE_CONNECT
   HAVE_CREAT64
   HAVE_CRYPT
   HAVE_CUPS
   HAVE_DECL_ASPRINTF
   HAVE_DECL_RL_EVENT_HOOK
   HAVE_DECL_SNPRINTF
   HAVE_DECL_VASPRINTF
   HAVE_DECL_VSNPRINTF
   HAVE_DEVICE_MAJOR_FN
   HAVE_DEVICE_MINOR_FN
   HAVE_DIRENT_D_OFF
   HAVE_DLCLOSE
   HAVE_DLERROR
   HAVE_DLOPEN
   HAVE_DLSYM
   HAVE_DUP2
   HAVE_ENDMNTENT
   HAVE_ENDNETGRENT
   HAVE_ERRNO_DECL
   HAVE_EXECL
   HAVE_EXPLICIT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT
   HAVE_FCHMOD
   HAVE_FCHOWN
   HAVE_FCNTL_LOCK
   HAVE_FCVT
   HAVE_FGETXATTR
   HAVE_FLISTXATTR
   HAVE_FOPEN64
   HAVE_FREMOVEXATTR
   HAVE_FSEEKO64
   HAVE_FSETXATTR
   HAVE_FSID_INT
   HAVE_FSTAT
   HAVE_FSTAT64
   HAVE_FSYNC
   HAVE_FTELLO64
   HAVE_FTRUNCATE
   HAVE_FTRUNCATE64
   HAVE_FTRUNCATE_EXTEND
   HAVE_FUNCTION_MACRO
   HAVE_GETCWD
   HAVE_GETDIRENTRIES
   HAVE_GETGRENT
   HAVE_GETGRNAM
   HAVE_GETGROUPLIST
   HAVE_GETMNTENT
   HAVE_GETNETGRENT
   HAVE_GETPAGESIZE
   HAVE_GETPGRP
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   HAVE_GETRLIMIT
   HAVE_GETSPNAM
   HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY_TZ
   HAVE_GETXATTR
   HAVE_GLOB
   HAVE_GRANTPT
   HAVE_GSSAPI
   HAVE_GSS_DISPLAY_STATUS
   HAVE_HISTORY_LIST
   HAVE_ICONV
   HAVE_IFACE_IFCONF
   HAVE_IMMEDIATE_STRUCTURES
   HAVE_INITGROUPS
   HAVE_INITIALIZE_KRB5_ERROR_TABLE
   HAVE_INNETGR
   HAVE_INOTIFY
   HAVE_IPRINT
   HAVE_KERNEL_CHANGE_NOTIFY
   HAVE_KERNEL_OPLOCKS_LINUX
   HAVE_KERNEL_SHARE_MODES
   HAVE_KRB5
   HAVE_KRB5_AUTH_CON_SETUSERUSERKEY
   HAVE_KRB5_C_ENCTYPE_COMPARE
   HAVE_KRB5_C_VERIFY_CHECKSUM
   HAVE_KRB5_ENCRYPT_BLOCK
   HAVE_KRB5_ENCRYPT_DATA
   HAVE_KRB5_FREE_DATA_CONTENTS
   HAVE_KRB5_FREE_KEYTAB_ENTRY_CONTENTS
   HAVE_KRB5_FREE_UNPARSED_NAME
   HAVE_KRB5_GET_INIT_CREDS_OPT_ALLOC
   HAVE_KRB5_GET_INIT_CREDS_OPT_FREE
   HAVE_KRB5_GET_PERMITTED_ENCTYPES
   HAVE_KRB5_GET_RENEWED_CREDS
   HAVE_KRB5_KEYBLOCK_IN_CREDS
   HAVE_KRB5_KEYTAB_ENTRY_KEY
   HAVE_KRB5_KEYUSAGE_APP_DATA_CKSUM
   HAVE_KRB5_KT_FREE_ENTRY
   HAVE_KRB5_LOCATE_KDC
   HAVE_KRB5_MK_REQ_EXTENDED
   HAVE_KRB5_PRINCIPAL2SALT
   HAVE_KRB5_PRINC_COMPONENT
   HAVE_KRB5_SET_DEFAULT_TGS_ENCTYPES
   HAVE_KRB5_SET_DEFAULT_TGS_KTYPES
   HAVE_KRB5_SET_REAL_TIME
   HAVE_KRB5_STRING_TO_KEY
   HAVE_KRB5_TKT_ENC_PART2
   HAVE_KRB5_USE_ENCTYPE
   HAVE_KRB5_VERIFY_CHECKSUM
   HAVE_KV5M_KEYTAB
   HAVE_LDAP
   HAVE_LDAP_ADD_RESULT_ENTRY
   HAVE_LDAP_INIT
   HAVE_LDAP_INITIALIZE
   HAVE_LDAP_SET_REBIND_PROC
   HAVE_LGETXATTR
   HAVE_LIBCOM_ERR
   HAVE_LIBGSSAPI_KRB5
   HAVE_LIBK5CRYPTO
   HAVE_LIBKRB5
   HAVE_LIBLBER
   HAVE_LIBLDAP
   HAVE_LIBPAM
   HAVE_LIBREADLINE
   HAVE_LIBRESOLV
   HAVE_LINK
   HAVE_LINUX_READAHEAD
   HAVE_LINUX_XFS_QUOTAS
   HAVE_LISTXATTR
   HAVE_LLISTXATTR
   HAVE_LLSEEK
   HAVE_LONGLONG
   HAVE_LONG_LONG
   HAVE_LREMOVEXATTR
   HAVE_LSEEK64
   HAVE_LSETXATTR
   HAVE_LSTAT
   HAVE_LSTAT64
   HAVE_MAGIC_IN_KRB5_ADDRESS
   HAVE_MAKEDEV
   HAVE_MEMALIGN
   HAVE_MEMCPY
   HAVE_MEMMOVE
   HAVE_MEMSET
   HAVE_MKDIR_MODE
   HAVE_MKDTEMP
   HAVE_MKNOD
   HAVE_MKTIME
   HAVE_MLOCK
   HAVE_MLOCKALL
   HAVE_MMAP
   HAVE_MUNLOCK
   HAVE_MUNLOCKALL
   HAVE_NANOSLEEP
   HAVE_NATIVE_ICONV
   HAVE_NEW_LIBREADLINE
   HAVE_NL_LANGINFO
   HAVE_NO_AIO
   HAVE_OPEN64
   HAVE_PAM_GET_DATA
   HAVE_PAM_VSYSLOG
   HAVE_PATHCONF
   HAVE_PEERCRED
   HAVE_PIPE
   HAVE_POLL
   HAVE_POSIX_ACLS
   HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
   HAVE_POSIX_MEMALIGN
   HAVE_PRCTL
   HAVE_PREAD
   HAVE_PREAD64
   HAVE_PRINTF
   HAVE_PUTUTLINE
   HAVE_PUTUTXLINE
   HAVE_PWRITE
   HAVE_PWRITE64
   HAVE_QUOTACTL_LINUX
   HAVE_RAND
   HAVE_RANDOM
   HAVE_READDIR64
   HAVE_READLINK
   HAVE_REALPATH
   HAVE_REMOVEXATTR
   HAVE_RENAME
   HAVE_SECURE_MKSTEMP
   HAVE_SELECT
   HAVE_SENDFILE64
   HAVE_SETBUFFER
   HAVE_SETEGID
   HAVE_SETENV
   HAVE_SETENV_DECL
   HAVE_SETEUID
   HAVE_SETGROUPS
   HAVE_SETLINEBUF
   HAVE_SETLOCALE
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   HAVE_SETNETGRENT
   HAVE_SETPGID
   HAVE_SETRESGID
   HAVE_SETRESGID_DECL
   HAVE_SETRESUID
   HAVE_SETRESUID_DECL
   HAVE_SETSID
   HAVE_SETXATTR
   HAVE_SHMGET
   HAVE_SHORT_KRB5_MK_ERROR_INTERFACE
   HAVE_SIGACTION
   HAVE_SIGBLOCK
   HAVE_SIGPROCMASK
   HAVE_SIGSET
   HAVE_SIG_ATOMIC_T_TYPE
   HAVE_SNPRINTF
   HAVE_SNPRINTF_DECL
   HAVE_SOCKETPAIR
   HAVE_SOCKLEN_T_TYPE
   HAVE_SRAND
   HAVE_SRANDOM
   HAVE_STAT64
   HAVE_STAT_HIRES_TIMESTAMPS
   HAVE_STAT_ST_ATIM
   HAVE_STAT_ST_BLKSIZE
   HAVE_STAT_ST_BLOCKS
   HAVE_STAT_ST_CTIM
   HAVE_STAT_ST_MTIM
   HAVE_STRCASECMP
   HAVE_STRCASESTR
   HAVE_STRCHR
   HAVE_STRDUP
   HAVE_STRERROR
   HAVE_STRFTIME
   HAVE_STRNDUP
   HAVE_STRNLEN
   HAVE_STRPBRK
   HAVE_STRSIGNAL
   HAVE_STRTOK_R
   HAVE_STRTOL
   HAVE_STRTOLL
   HAVE_STRTOQ
   HAVE_STRTOUL
   HAVE_STRTOULL
   HAVE_STRTOUQ
   HAVE_STRUCT_DIRENT64
   HAVE_STRUCT_FLOCK64
   HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_RDEV
   HAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC
   HAVE_ST_RDEV
   HAVE_SYMLINK
   HAVE_SYSCONF
   HAVE_SYSLOG
   HAVE_SYS_QUOTAS
   HAVE_TICKET_POINTER_IN_KRB5_AP_REQ
   HAVE_TIMEGM
   HAVE_UNIXSOCKET
   HAVE_UNSETENV
   HAVE_UPDWTMP
   HAVE_UPDWTMPX
   HAVE_USLEEP
   HAVE_UTIMBUF
   HAVE_UTIME
   HAVE_UTIMES
   HAVE_VASPRINTF
   HAVE_VASPRINTF_DECL
   HAVE_VA_COPY
   HAVE_VOLATILE
   HAVE_VSNPRINTF
   HAVE_VSNPRINTF_DECL
   HAVE_VSYSLOG
   HAVE_WAITPID
   HAVE_WORKING_AF_LOCAL
   HAVE_WRFILE_KEYTAB
   HAVE_XFS_QUOTAS
   HAVE_YP_GET_DEFAULT_DOMAIN
   HAVE__Bool
   HAVE__ET_LIST
   HAVE__VA_ARGS__MACRO
   HAVE___CLOSE
   HAVE___DUP2
   HAVE___FCNTL
   HAVE___FORK
   HAVE___FSTAT
   HAVE___FXSTAT
   HAVE___LSEEK
   HAVE___LSTAT
   HAVE___LXSTAT
   HAVE___NR_INOTIFY_INIT_DECL
   HAVE___OPEN
   HAVE___OPEN64
   HAVE___PREAD64
   HAVE___PWRITE64
   HAVE___READ
   HAVE___STAT
   HAVE___WRITE
   HAVE___XSTAT

 --with Options:
   WITH_ADS
   WITH_AUTOMOUNT
   WITH_CIFSMOUNT
   WITH_PAM
   WITH_PAM_MODULES
   WITH_QUOTAS
   WITH_SENDFILE
   WITH_SYSLOG
   WITH_UTMP
   WITH_WINBIND

 Build Options:
   COMPILER_SUPPORTS_LL
   CONFIG_H_IS_FROM_SAMBA
   DEFAULT_DISPLAY_CHARSET
   DEFAULT_DOS_CHARSET
   DEFAULT_UNIX_CHARSET
   KRB5_CREDS_OPT_FREE_REQUIRES_CONTEXT
   KRB5_TICKET_HAS_KEYINFO
   KRB5_VERIFY_CHECKSUM_ARGS
   LDAP_SET_REBIND_PROC_ARGS
   LINUX
   LINUX_SENDFILE_API
   PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
   PACKAGE_NAME
   PACKAGE_STRING
   PACKAGE_TARNAME
   PACKAGE_VERSION
   REALPATH_TAKES_NULL
   RETSIGTYPE
   SEEKDIR_RETURNS_VOID
   SHLIBEXT
   SIZEOF_CHAR
   SIZEOF_DEV_T
   SIZEOF_INO_T
   SIZEOF_INT
   SIZEOF_LONG_LONG
   SIZEOF_OFF_T
   SIZEOF_SHORT
   SIZEOF_SIZE_T
   SIZEOF_SSIZE_T
   STAT_STATVFS64
   STAT_ST_BLOCKSIZE
   STDC_HEADERS
   STRING_STATIC_MODULES
   SYSCONF_SC_NGROUPS_MAX
   SYSCONF_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN
   SYSCONF_SC_PAGESIZE
   TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME
   USE_SETRESUID
   WITH_ADS
   WITH_AUTOMOUNT
   WITH_CIFSMOUNT
   WITH_PAM
   WITH_PAM_MODULES
   WITH_QUOTAS
   WITH_SENDFILE
   WITH_SYSLOG
   WITH_WINBIND
   _FILE_OFFSET_BITS
   _GNU_SOURCE
   _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
   _POSIX_C_SOURCE
   _POSIX_SOURCE
   _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
   auth_script_init
   charset_CP437_init
   charset_CP850_init
   idmap_ad_init
   idmap_rid_init
   offset_t
   static_decl_auth
   static_decl_charset
   static_decl_idmap
   static_decl_nss_info
   static_decl_pdb
   static_decl_rpc
   static_decl_vfs
   static_init_auth
   static_init_charset
   static_init_idmap
   static_init_nss_info
   static_init_pdb
   static_init_rpc
   static_init_vfs
   uint_t
   vfs_audit_init
   vfs_cap_init
   vfs_default_quota_init
   vfs_expand_msdfs_init
   vfs_extd_audit_init
   vfs_fake_perms_init
   vfs_full_audit_init
   vfs_netatalk_init
   vfs_readahead_init
   vfs_readonly_init
   vfs_recycle_init
   vfs_shadow_copy_init

Type sizes:
   sizeof(char):         1
   sizeof(int):          4
   sizeof(long):         4
   sizeof(long long):    8
   sizeof(uint8):        1
   sizeof(uint16):       2
   sizeof(uint32):       4
   sizeof(short):        2
   sizeof(void*):        4
   sizeof(size_t):       4
   sizeof(off_t):        8
   sizeof(ino_t):        8
   sizeof(dev_t):        8

Builtin modules:
    pdb_ldap pdb_smbpasswd pdb_tdbsam rpc_lsa rpc_reg rpc_lsa_ds
rpc_wkssvc rpc_svcctl rpc_ntsvcs rpc_net rpc_netdfs rpc_srv
rpc_spoolss rpc_eventlog rpc_samr rpc_echo idmap_ldap idmap_tdb
idmap_passdb idmap_nss nss_info_template auth_sam auth_unix
auth_winbind auth_server auth_domain auth_builtin vfs_default
vfs_posixacl


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