SMBLDAP...RADD.CMD(8)

okay bestie, welcome to the SMBLDAP...RADD.CMD page 💅 this is the smbldap-useradd manual — it's from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and yes, she's an 8 (sysadmin commands only, main character energy only). sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're making users.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

smbldap-useradd — create a new user ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

smbldap-useradd [-abinwPW] [-c comment] [-d home_dir] [-g initial_group]
[-m [-k skeleton_dir]] [-o user_ou] [-s shell] [-t time] [-u uid] [-A
canchange] [-B mustchange] [-C smbhome] [-D homedrive] [-E scriptpath]
[-F profilepath] [-G group[,...]] [-H acctflags] [-M mailaddr[,...]] [-N
givenname] [-O mailaddr[,...]] [-S surname] [-T mailaddr[,...]] [-X
encoding] [-Z name=value[,...]] login

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

🌈 Creating New Users 🌈

The smbldap-useradd command creates a new user account using the values you type on the command line, plus the default values that come from the system and from the configuration files (which live in the /etc/smbldap-tools directory). 🫶

If you give it no options at all, the account created will be a plain Unix (Posix) account. The following options may be used to add information:

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💫 the options, bestie 💫

• -a — the user gets a Samba account (and a Unix one too, obviously). ✨
• -A — can change password? 0 if no, 1 if yes. 👑
• -b — the user is an AIX account.
• -B — must change password? 0 if no, 1 if yes. 🚨
• -c "comment" — the new user's comment field (gecos). 🗣️ Heads up though: this option is for gecos only! If you wanna set the user's full name, use the -N and -S options instead, okay?
• -C sambaHomePath — the SMB home share, like '\\\\PDC-SRV\\homes'. 🏠
• -d home_dir — the new user gets created using home_dir for their login directory. The default is to append the login name to userHomePrefix (defined in the configuration file) and use that as the login directory name. 📁
• -D sambaHomeDrive — the letter associated with the home share, like 'H:'. 💾
• -E sambaLogonScript — relative to the [netlogon] share (a DOS script to execute on login, like 'foo.bat'). 🖥️
• -F sambaProfilePath — the profile directory, like '\\\\PDC-SRV\\profiles\\foo'. 🗂️
• -g initial_group — the group name or number of the user's initial login group. The group name must exist. A group number must refer to an already existing group. The default group number is defined in the configuration file (defaultUserGid="513"). 👯
• -G group,[...] — a list of supplementary groups the user is also a member of. Each group is separated from the next by a comma, with no intervening whitespace. These groups are subject to the same restrictions as the group you gave with the -g option. The default is for the user to belong only to the initial group. 🫂
• -H sambaAcctFlags — spaces and the trailing bracket get ignored (samba account control bits like '[NDHTUMWSLKI]'). 🚩
• -i — creates an interdomain trust account (machine Workstation). A password will be asked for the trust account. 🔐
• -k skeletonDir — when creating the user's home directory, copy files and directories from skeletonDir rather than /etc/skel. The -k option is only valid in conjunction with the -m option. The default is not to create the directory and not to copy any files. 🧺
• -m — the user's home directory will be created if it does not exist. The files contained in skeletonDir will be copied to the home directory if the -k option is used, otherwise the files contained in /etc/skel will be used instead. Any directories contained in skeletonDir or /etc/skel will be created in the user's home directory as well. 🏡
• -M mail — e-mail addresses (multiple addresses are separated by commas). 📧
• --non-unique — allow the creation of a user account with a duplicate (non-unique) UID. 💀 (yes it's giving chaos, that's the point)
• -n — do not print the banner message. 🤫
• -N givenname — family name. Defaults to username. 👨‍👩‍👧
• -o node — the user's account will be created in the specified organizational unit. It is relative to the user suffix dn ($usersdn) defined in the configuration file. Ex: 'ou=admin,ou=all'. 🌳
• -O localMailAddress — localMailAddresses (multiple addresses are separated by commas). 📬
• -P — ends by invoking smbldap-passwd. 🔑
• -p — read password from STDIN without verification. 🙈
• -s shell — the name of the user's login shell. The default is to leave this field blank, which causes the system to select the default login shell. 🐚
• -S surname — defaults to username. 🏷️
• -t time — wait <time> seconds before exiting the script when adding a computer's account. This is useful when Master/PDC and Slaves/BDCs are connected through the Internet (replication is not real time). ⏳
• -T mailToAddress — forward address (multiple addresses are separated by commas). ➡️
• -u uid — the numerical value of the user's ID. This value must be unique, unless the --non-unique option is used. The value must be non-negative. The default is to use the smallest ID value greater than 1000 and greater than every other user. 🔢
• -w/-W — creates an account for a Samba machine (Workstation), so that it can join a sambaDomainName. Normally -w is used for adding machines through Samba, but -W can be used for manual addition of samba attributes. 🖥️✨
• -X encoding — specify input encoding for givenname and surname (default UTF-8). 🌐
• -Z name=value — specify custom LDAP attributes, using comma-separated name=value pairs. 🎨

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• useradd(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie, no notes 💅 this was written by the perl v5.32.1 girlies and dated 2021-11-07 — shoutout to the User Contributed Perl Documentation section for keeping it cute since forever 🎀 go make some users, you're gonna slay ✨🦋💖