[Samba] How to modify user fields with a command line ?

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 16:44:34 +0400
henri transfert <hb.transfert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On RSAT , we can see that there are some extra fields for users
> account like description, office, phone number or email address.
> 
> I already have hundreds of user accounts in Samba AD but these extra
> fields have not been fed. I would like to import in particular the
> email address for each existing users, however I don't find a way to
> do that with a samba command line.
> 
> Is there a way to modify these fields on existing users using a samba
> command line (the next step will be to use this command in a shell
> script) ?
> 

No, samba-tool cannot do this, but it should be fairly easy to create a
bash script using ldb-tools to do this.

Rowland