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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2002-06-17 18:36:36 +0000
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/hacks/docbook2X/>
.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
-.TH "SMBPASSWD" "8" "02 May 2002" "" ""
+.TH "SMBPASSWD" "8" "06 June 2002" "" ""
.SH NAME
smbpasswd \- change a user's SMB password
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -68,13 +68,6 @@ permissions for the user running the command.
This option prints the help string for
\fBsmbpasswd\fR.
.TP
-\fB-s\fR
-This option causes smbpasswd to be silent (i.e.
-not issue prompts) and to read its old and new passwords from
-standard input, rather than from \fI/dev/tty\fR
-(like the \fBpasswd(1)\fR program does). This option
-is to aid people writing scripts to drive smbpasswd
-.TP
\fB-c smb.conf file\fR
This option specifies that the configuration
file specified should be used instead of the default value
@@ -120,6 +113,28 @@ change).
a real password database so it is not possible to change passwords
specifying a Win95/98 machine as remote machine target.
.TP
+\fB-s\fR
+This option causes smbpasswd to be silent (i.e.
+not issue prompts) and to read its old and new passwords from
+standard input, rather than from \fI/dev/tty\fR
+(like the \fBpasswd(1)\fR program does). This option
+is to aid people writing scripts to drive smbpasswd
+.TP
+\fB-S\fR
+This option causes \fBsmbpasswd\fR
+to query a domain controller of the domain specified
+by the workgroup
+parameter in \fIsmb.conf\fR and store the
+domain SID in the \fIsecrets.tdb\fR file
+as its own machine SID. This is only useful when configuring
+a Samba PDC and Samba BDC, or when migrating from a Windows PDC
+to a Samba PDC.
+
+The \fI-r\fR options can be used
+as well to indicate a specific domain controller which should
+be contacted. In this case, the domain SID obtained is the
+one for the domain to which the remote machine belongs.
+.TP
\fB-U username[%pass]\fR
This option may only be used in conjunction
with the \fI-r\fR option. When changing
@@ -200,7 +215,7 @@ switch is used to specify the password to be used with the
dn\fR. Note that the password is stored in
the \fIprivate/secrets.tdb\fR and is keyed off
of the admin's DN. This means that if the value of \fIldap
-admin dn\fR ever changes, the password will beed to be
+admin dn\fR ever changes, the password will need to be
manually updated as well.
.TP
\fB-x\fR