samba - Aug 2016 - How to modify user fields with a command line ?

Hi,

On RSAT , we can see that there are some extra fields for users account
like description, office, phone number or email address.

I already have hundreds of user accounts in Samba AD but these extra fields
have not been fed. I would like to import in particular the email address
for each existing users, however I don't find a way to do that with a samba
command line.

Is there a way to modify these fields on existing users using a samba
command line (the next step will be to use this command in a shell script)
?

The net rpc user command can add/delete users, but not modify information
on existing users.

Thanks in advance.

Henri

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 16:44:34 +0400
henri transfert <hb.transfert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On RSAT , we can see that there are some extra fields for users
> account like description, office, phone number or email address.
> 
> I already have hundreds of user accounts in Samba AD but these extra
> fields have not been fed. I would like to import in particular the
> email address for each existing users, however I don't find a way to
> do that with a samba command line.
> 
> Is there a way to modify these fields on existing users using a samba
> command line (the next step will be to use this command in a shell
> script) ?
> 
No, samba-tool cannot do this, but it should be fairly easy to create a
bash script using ldb-tools to do this.

Rowland

2016-08-04 17:49 GMT+04:00 Rowland Penny <rpenny at samba.org>:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 16:44:34 +0400
> henri transfert <hb.transfert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On RSAT , we can see that there are some extra fields for users
> > account like description, office, phone number or email address.
> >
> > I already have hundreds of user accounts in Samba AD but these extra
> > fields have not been fed. I would like to import in particular the
> > email address for each existing users, however I don't find a way
to
> > do that with a samba command line.
> >
> > Is there a way to modify these fields on existing users using a samba
> > command line (the next step will be to use this command in a shell
> > script) ?
> >
>
> No, samba-tool cannot do this, but it should be fairly easy to create a
> bash script using ldb-tools to do this.
>
> Rowland
>
>
Thanks for your help Rowland.

I had a look at the LDB Tools wiki page.
As far as I understand, I have to generate a LDIF file containing all the
changes I want to add to the database, something like :

myLDIF_file :
dn: CN=user1,OU=myOU,DC=mydom,DC=foo,DC=fr
changetype: modify
add: mail
mail: user1 at foo.fr

dn: CN=user2,OU=myOU,DC=mydom,DC=foo,DC=fr
changetype: modify
add: mail
mail: user2 at foo.fr
etc ...

and use $ ldbmodify -H samba_home/private/sam.ldb myLDIF_file to modify the
Samba AD database.
Am I on the right way ?

If yes , where can I find the exact syntax of this special form of LDIF
format ?

Thanks in advance

Henri