SAMBA-REGEDIT(8) System Administration tools SAMBA-REGEDIT(8)
NAME
samba-regedit - ncurses based tool to manage the Samba registry
SYNOPSIS
samba-regedit [-?|--help] [--usage] [-d|--debuglevel=DEBUGLEVEL]
[--debug-stdout] [--configfile=CONFIGFILE] [--option=name=value]
[-l|--log-basename=LOGFILEBASE] [--leak-report] [--leak-report-full]
[-R|--name-resolve=NAME-RESOLVE-ORDER]
[-O|--socket-options=SOCKETOPTIONS] [-m|--max-protocol=MAXPROTOCOL]
[-n|--netbiosname=NETBIOSNAME] [--netbios-scope=SCOPE]
[-W|--workgroup=WORKGROUP] [--realm=REALM]
[-U|--user=[DOMAIN/]USERNAME[%PASSWORD]] [-N|--no-pass]
[--password=STRING] [--pw-nt-hash] [-A|--authentication-file=FILE]
[-P|--machine-pass] [--simple-bind-dn=DN]
[--use-kerberos=desired|required|off] [--use-krb5-ccache=CCACHE]
[--use-winbind-ccache] [--client-protection=sign|encrypt|off]
[-V|--version]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the
samba(7) suite.
samba-regedit is a ncurses based tool to manage the Samba registry.
It can be used to show/edit registry keys/subkeys and their values.
OPTIONS
-?|--help
Print a summary of command line options.
--usage
Display brief usage message.
-d|--debuglevel=DEBUGLEVEL
level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this
parameter is not specified is 1 for client applications.
The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log
files about the activities of the server. At level 0, only
critical errors and serious warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a
reasonable level for day-to-day running - it generates a small
amount of information about operations carried out.
Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data,
and should only be used when investigating a problem. Levels
above 3 are designed for use only by developers and generate HUGE
amounts of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
log level parameter in the ${prefix}/etc/smb.conf file.
--debug-stdout
This will redirect debug output to STDOUT. By default all clients
are logging to STDERR.
--configfile=<configuration file>
The file specified contains the configuration details required by
the client. The information in this file can be general for
client and server or only provide client specific like options
such as
client smb encrypt. See ${prefix}/etc/smb.conf for more
information. The default configuration file name is determined at
compile time.
--option=<name>=<value>
Set the
smb.conf(5) option "<name>" to value "<value>" from the
command line. This overrides compiled-in defaults and options
read from the configuration file. If a name or a value includes a
space, wrap whole --option=name=value into quotes.
-l|--log-basename=logdirectory
Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension
".progname" will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient, log.smbd,
etc...). The log file is never removed by the client.
--leak-report
Enable talloc leak reporting on exit.
--leak-report-full
Enable full talloc leak reporting on exit.
-V|--version
Prints the program version number.
-R|--name-resolve=NAME-RESOLVE-ORDER
This option is used to determine what naming services and in what
order to resolve host names to IP addresses. The option takes a
space-separated string of different name resolution options. The
best ist to wrap the whole --name-resolve=NAME-RESOLVE-ORDER into
quotes.
The options are: "lmhosts", "host", "wins" and "bcast". They
cause names to be resolved as follows:
+o
lmhosts: Lookup an IP address in the Samba lmhosts
file. If the line in lmhosts has no name type attached
to the NetBIOS name (see the
lmhosts(5) for details)
then any name type matches for lookup.
+o
host: Do a standard host name to IP address
resolution, using the system /etc/hosts, NIS, or DNS
lookups. This method of name resolution is operating
system dependent, for instance on IRIX or Solaris this
may be controlled by the /etc/nsswitch.conf file).
Note that this method is only used if the NetBIOS name
type being queried is the 0x20 (server) name type,
otherwise it is ignored.
+o
wins: Query a name with the IP address listed in the
wins server parameter. If no WINS server has been
specified this method will be ignored.
+o
bcast: Do a broadcast on each of the known local
interfaces listed in the
interfaces parameter. This is
the least reliable of the name resolution methods as
it depends on the target host being on a locally
connected subnet.
If this parameter is not set then the name resolve order defined
in the ${prefix}/etc/smb.conf file parameter (
name resolve order)
will be used.
The default order is lmhosts, host, wins, bcast. Without this
parameter or any entry in the
name resolve order parameter of the
${prefix}/etc/smb.conf file, the name resolution methods will be
attempted in this order.
-O|--socket-options=SOCKETOPTIONS
TCP socket options to set on the client socket. See the socket
options parameter in the ${prefix}/etc/smb.conf manual page for
the list of valid options.
-m|--max-protocol=MAXPROTOCOL
The value of the parameter (a string) is the highest protocol
level that will be supported by the client.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
client max protocol parameter in the ${prefix}/etc/smb.conf file.
-n|--netbiosname=NETBIOSNAME
This option allows you to override the NetBIOS name that Samba
uses for itself. This is identical to setting the
netbios name parameter in the ${prefix}/etc/smb.conf file. However, a command
line setting will take precedence over settings in
${prefix}/etc/smb.conf.
--netbios-scope=SCOPE
This specifies a NetBIOS scope that nmblookup will use to
communicate with when generating NetBIOS names. For details on
the use of NetBIOS scopes, see rfc1001.txt and rfc1002.txt.
NetBIOS scopes are
very rarely used, only set this parameter if
you are the system administrator in charge of all the NetBIOS
systems you communicate with.
-W|--workgroup=WORKGROUP
Set the SMB domain of the username. This overrides the default
domain which is the domain defined in smb.conf. If the domain
specified is the same as the servers NetBIOS name, it causes the
client to log on using the servers local SAM (as opposed to the
Domain SAM).
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
workgroup parameter in the ${prefix}/etc/smb.conf file.
-r|--realm=REALM
Set the realm for the domain.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
realm parameter in the ${prefix}/etc/smb.conf file.
-U|--user=[DOMAIN\]USERNAME[%PASSWORD]
Sets the SMB username or username and password.
If %PASSWORD is not specified, the user will be prompted. The
client will first check the
USER environment variable (which is
also permitted to also contain the password separated by a %),
then the
LOGNAME variable (which is not permitted to contain a
password) and if either exists, the value is used. If these
environmental variables are not found, the username found in a
Kerberos Credentials cache may be used.
A third option is to use a credentials file which contains the
plaintext of the username and password. This option is mainly
provided for scripts where the admin does not wish to pass the
credentials on the command line or via environment variables. If
this method is used, make certain that the permissions on the
file restrict access from unwanted users. See the
-A for more
details.
Be cautious about including passwords in scripts or passing
user-supplied values onto the command line. For security it is
better to let the Samba client tool ask for the password if
needed, or obtain the password once with kinit.
While Samba will attempt to scrub the password from the process
title (as seen in ps), this is after startup and so is subject to
a race.
-N|--no-pass
If specified, this parameter suppresses the normal password
prompt from the client to the user. This is useful when accessing
a service that does not require a password.
Unless a password is specified on the command line or this
parameter is specified, the client will request a password.
If a password is specified on the command line and this option is
also defined the password on the command line will be silently
ignored and no password will be used.
--password
Specify the password on the commandline.
Be cautious about including passwords in scripts or passing
user-supplied values onto the command line. For security it is
better to let the Samba client tool ask for the password if
needed, or obtain the password once with kinit.
If --password is not specified, the tool will check the
PASSWD environment variable, followed by
PASSWD_FD which is expected to
contain an open file descriptor (FD) number.
Finally it will check
PASSWD_FILE (containing a file path to be
opened). The file should only contain the password. Make certain
that the permissions on the file restrict access from unwanted
users!
While Samba will attempt to scrub the password from the process
title (as seen in ps), this is after startup and so is subject to
a race.
--pw-nt-hash
The supplied password is the NT hash.
-A|--authentication-file=filename
This option allows you to specify a file from which to read the
username and password used in the connection. The format of the
file is:
username = <value>
password = <value>
domain = <value>
Make certain that the permissions on the file restrict access
from unwanted users!
-P|--machine-pass
Use stored machine account password.
--simple-bind-dn=DN
DN to use for a simple bind.
--use-kerberos=desired|required|off
This parameter determines whether Samba client tools will try to
authenticate using Kerberos. For Kerberos authentication you need
to use dns names instead of IP addresses when connecting to a
service.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
client use kerberos parameter in the ${prefix}/etc/smb.conf file.
--use-krb5-ccache=CCACHE
Specifies the credential cache location for Kerberos
authentication.
This will set --use-kerberos=required too.
--use-winbind-ccache
Try to use the credential cache by winbind.
--client-protection=sign|encrypt|off
Sets the connection protection the client tool should use.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
client protection parameter in the ${prefix}/etc/smb.conf file.
In case you need more fine grained control you can use:
--option=clientsmbencrypt=OPTION,
--option=clientipcsigning=OPTION, --option=clientsigning=OPTION.
VERSION
This man page is part of version 4.18.11 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
smbd(8),
samba(7) and
net(8).
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
The samba-regedit man page was written by Karolin Seeger.
Samba 4.18.11 03/13/2024 SAMBA-REGEDIT(8)