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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 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
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 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
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
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the client
max protocol parameter in the 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 smb.conf file. However, a command line setting will take
precedence over settings in 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 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 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 seperated 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.
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 connnecting to a
service.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the client
use kerberos parameter in the smb.conf file.
--use-krb5-ccache=CCACHE
--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 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 4.16.11 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 4.16.11 07/17/2023 SAMBA-REGEDIT(8)