List Samba users?

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So yesterday evening I was pulling my hair out (figuratively -- I'm bald) for over an hour trying to figure out why smbpasswd kept rejecting my attempts to reset the password for one of my Samba users. Anyway, long story short, it was apparently because the user didn't exist yet (smbpasswd -a added her without complaint, and now everything's hunky-dory), even though I still swear up and down that I did indeed add her already.

Anyway, if I could have simply listed the users in the smbpasswd database, it would saved me a lot of grief. Is there a command or utility that can do that? (Samba's using that new-fangled .tdb database, otherwise I would have just cat /etc/smbpasswd.)

Kromey

Posted 2011-04-14T22:31:27.780

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Answers

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I believe the command your looking for is pdbedit.

From the man page "pdbedit - manage the SAM database (Database of Samba Users)"

sudo pdbedit -L -v

-L to list users. -v to be verbose.

James T

Posted 2011-04-14T22:31:27.780

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Nope, doesn't work. I get tdbsam_open: Failed to open/create TDB passwd [/var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb] – starbeamrainbowlabs – 2016-04-17T16:20:36.357

3@starbeamrainbowlabs I get this error, too, when I run that command WITHOUT sudo! running it with sudo works fine – eli – 2017-01-13T11:56:58.797

This saved me some time and trouble. Thanks! – Brian Cowan – 2017-03-27T17:12:24.267

That looks like exactly what I was after, thanks! – Kromey – 2011-04-15T00:07:01.247

In Samba 4 and later, there's also samba-tool user list and other useful user management commands

McX

Posted 2011-04-14T22:31:27.780

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2I believe this is only if you set up Samba to be an AD server. With a workgroup or NT4 domain Samba server, you need pdbedit -L as in the accepted answer. – mivk – 2019-01-09T12:54:12.893