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Samba passwd smbpasswd and tdbsam

November 18, 2011 by Igor Drobot Leave a Comment

Some commands to convert samba backend password-databases.

If you use “passdb backend = smbpasswd” in your smb.conf you must convert your system-user accounts to smbpasswd:

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cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd >/etc/samba/smbpasswd

cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd >/etc/samba/smbpasswd

If you use “passdb backend = tdbsam” in your smb.conf you must convert your system-user accounts to passdb.tdb:

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pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd -e tdbsam:/etc/samba/passdb.tdb

pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd -e tdbsam:/etc/samba/passdb.tdb

Filed Under: Linux, Networking Tagged With: passwd, Samba, smb, smbpasswd, tdbsam

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