smbuser

Allows user's to manage their own SMB accounts (assuming they have a valid UNIX login on the machine).

The only requirements is a POSIX system that is using PAM for login authentication.

Install

Before building you will need the following:

• C compiler, such as GCC or Clang.
• libpam, specifically the development version if your distribution separates out development files.

Now, to build `smbuser simply run:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. && make
# make install

This will install smbuseradd and smbuserdel into /usr/local/bin.

The minimum SMB password length and the location of the smbpasswd command can be changed by editing the src/config.h file.

Usage

smbuser consists of two separate commands:

• smbuseradd - adds a UNIX user to the SMB database, can also change password
• smbuserdel - remove a user from the SMB database

Both of these require the UNIX password of the user to be modified.

For example, to add the UNIX user nick to the SMB database (or to change nick's password if is already in the SMB database):

$ smbuseradd nick
UNIX Password for nick: ********
New SMB password: ********
Re-enter SMB password: ********

Even when run as root smbuseradd (and smbuserdel) require the user's UNIX password be entered before any modification of the SMB database is performed. If you need to modify a user as root use the smbpasswd command that came with Samba.

To remove nick from the SMB database:

$ smbuserdel nick
UNIX Password for nick: ********