PROFILES(1)

💖 PROFILES(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a User Commands situation, and the manual we're doing is profiles — yes it's a manual for the profiles command, careful not to get confused babe 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

profiles — a utility to report and change SIDs in registry files 💅

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📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

profiles [-c|--change-sid=STRING] [-n|--new-sid=STRING] [-v|--verbose]
 [-?|--help] [--usage] [-d|--debuglevel=DEBUGLEVEL] [--debug-stdout]
 [--configfile=CONFIGFILE] [--option=name=value]
 [-l|--log-basename=LOGFILEBASE] [--leak-report] [--leak-report-full]
 {FILE}

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this tool is literally part of the samba(7) suite. Iconic family to be in, no cap. 👑

profiles is a utility that reports and changes SIDs in windows registry files. It currently only supports NT. That's it, that's the vibe — don't come for her for not supporting other stuff, she said what she said 💀

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• file — the registry file you wanna view or edit. main character of the command, honestly 🦋
• -v, --verbose — makes the messages more chatty. she's a yapper now and honestly? obsessed 💬
• -c SID1 -n SID2, --change-sid SID1 --new-sid SID2 — swaps out all the occurrences of SID1 in the file with SID2. glow-up via search-and-replace, periodt ✨
• -d, --debuglevel=level — level is an integer from 0 to 10. If you don't set this param at all, the default is 1 for client applications.

The higher this value, the more detail gets logged to the log files about what the server's up to. At level 0, only critical errors and serious warnings get logged — very demure, very mindful 💅 Level 1 is the reasonable day-to-day level, it kicks out a small amount of info about the operations it carried out. Cute, low maintenance.

Levels above 1 generate a considerable amount of log data, so only go there when you're investigating a problem. And levels above 3 are literally designed for developers only and generate HUGE amounts of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic 😭 like girl, you don't wanna know.

fr fr, noting this parameter here will override the log level parameter in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. she said my command line, my rules 💀

• --debug-stdout — redirects the debug output to STDOUT. By default all clients log to STDERR, so this is the switch that moves the whole party 🎉
• --configfile=<configuration file> — the file you name here holds the configuration details the client needs. The info inside can be general for client and server, or it can be only client-specific stuff like options such as client smb encrypt. Peep /etc/samba/smb.conf for more info. The default config file name is determined at compile time, iykyk 🌈
• --option=<name>=<value> — sets the smb.conf(5) option "<name>" to value "<value>" straight from the command line. This overrides the compiled-in defaults AND the options read from the config file. If a name or a value has a space in it, wrap the whole --option=name=value in quotes, bestie, don't get caught lacking 🫶
• -l, --log-basename=logdirectory — base directory name for the log/debug files. The extension ".progname" gets appended (like log.smbclient, log.smbd, etc...). Oh and heads up: the log file is never removed by the client. She's a keeper, she stays 💀
• --leak-report — turns on talloc leak reporting on exit. snitch on your leaks, queen 🕵️‍♀️
• --leak-report-full — turns on the full talloc leak reporting on exit. the deluxe edition, the director's cut 👑
• -V, --version — prints the program version number. slay, who are you today 🎀
• -?, --help — prints a summary of the command line options. when u need her to explain herself ✨
• --usage — displays a brief usage message. short and sweet, minimal effort, we love to see it 💅

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🌟 VERSION 🌟

This man page is part of version 4.24.7-Ubuntu-4.24.7+dfsg-1ubuntu1 of the Samba suite. yeah, that's a lot of numbers, she's got lore 🌸

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💜 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, similarly to the way the Linux kernel is developed — collab culture before it was cool, honestly iconic 👑

The profiles man page was written by Jelmer Vernooij. thank u for ur service bestie 🫶

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okay that's the whole thing, you ate that 🍓 and just so you have the receipts: this lovely page comes from Samba version 4.24.7-Ubuntu-4.24.7+dfsg-1ubuntu1, dated 09/13/2026. mwah, go change some SIDs responsibly 💖✨