samba - Jun 2010 - how to set homeDirectory and loginShell from cli

Hello everybody,

I am trying to set the homeDirectory and loginShel of my users in the
samba user database from the command line interface (no webgui stuff)

See the attachment for the smb.conf

The samba users are in a ldapsam:editposix openldap database. They
show with getent passwd and getent group or ldapsearch -x.

# both do not work
usermod --shell /bin/bash username
usermod --home /home/samba/username/ username

# both show no option to set homeDirectory or loginShell
pdbedit -u username
net rpc user ?

Can somebody help me with the correct command line commands to set the
homeDirectory and loginShell for my samba user database?

Thanks in advance,

With kind regards,

Jelle de Jong
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Am Sonntag 13 Juni 2010 22:39:05 schrieb Jelle de Jong:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am trying to set the homeDirectory and loginShel of my users in the
> samba user database from the command line interface (no webgui stuff)
> 
> See the attachment for the smb.conf
> 
> The samba users are in a ldapsam:editposix openldap database. They
> show with getent passwd and getent group or ldapsearch -x.
> 
> # both do not work
> usermod --shell /bin/bash username
> usermod --home /home/samba/username/ username
> 
> # both show no option to set homeDirectory or loginShell
> pdbedit -u username
> net rpc user ?
> 
> Can somebody help me with the correct command line commands to set the
> homeDirectory and loginShell for my samba user database?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> With kind regards,
> 
> Jelle de Jong
> 
when you run
   testparm -vs 2>&1 | grep template

you'll notice something like:
        template homedir = /home/%D/%U
        template shell = /bin/false

Both are [global] settings in smb.conf - i.e. you can set
        template shell = /bin/bash

See also 'man smb.conf'.
(Also read 'man idmap_ad' for special cases with that idmap backend.)

Cheers, G?nter