1SWAT(8) System Administration tools SWAT(8)
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6 swat - Samba Web Administration Tool
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9 swat [-s <smb config file>] [-a] [-P]
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12 This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
13 swat allows a Samba administrator to configure the complex smb.conf(5)
15 file via a Web browser. In addition, a swat configuration page has help
16 links to all the configurable options in the smb.conf file allowing an
17 administrator to easily look up the effects of any change.
18 swat is run from inetd
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22 -s smb configuration file
23 The default configuration file path is determined at compile time.
24 The file specified contains the configuration details required by
25 the smbd(8) server. This is the file that swat will modify. The
26 information in this file includes server-specific information such
27 as what printcap file to use, as well as descriptions of all the
28 services that the server is to provide. See smb.conf for more
29 information.
30 -a
32 This option disables authentication and places swat in demo mode.
33 In that mode anyone will be able to modify the smb.conf file.
34 WARNING: Do NOT enable this option on a production server.
36 -P
38 This option restricts read-only users to the password management
39 page. swat can then be used to change user passwords without users
40 seeing the "View" and "Status" menu buttons.
41 -d|--debuglevel=level
43 level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this
44 parameter is not specified is 0.
45 The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log
47 files about the activities of the server. At level 0, only critical
48 errors and serious warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable
49 level for day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of
50 information about operations carried out.
51 Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data, and
53 should only be used when investigating a problem. Levels above 3
54 are designed for use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts
55 of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic.
56 Note that specifying this parameter here will override the log
58 level parameter in the smb.conf file.
59 -V|--version
61 Prints the program version number.
62 -s|--configfile <configuration file>
64 The file specified contains the configuration details required by
65 the server. The information in this file includes server-specific
66 information such as what printcap file to use, as well as
67 descriptions of all the services that the server is to provide. See
68 smb.conf for more information. The default configuration file name
69 is determined at compile time.
70 -l|--log-basename=logdirectory
72 Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension ".progname"
73 will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient, log.smbd, etc...). The log
74 file is never removed by the client.
75 -?|--help
77 Print a summary of command line options.
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80 Swat is included as binary package with most distributions. The package
81 manager in this case takes care of the installation and configuration.
82 This section is only for those who have compiled swat from scratch.
83 After you compile SWAT you need to run make install to install the swat
85 binary and the various help files and images. A default install would
86 put these in:
87 · /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat
89 · /usr/local/samba/swat/images/*
91 · /usr/local/samba/swat/help/*
93 Inetd Installation
96 You need to edit your /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services to enable SWAT
97 to be launched via inetd.
98 In /etc/services you need to add a line like this:
100 swat 901/tcp
102 Note for NIS/YP and LDAP users - you may need to rebuild the NIS
104 service maps rather than alter your local /etc/services file.
105 the choice of port number isn't really important except that it should
107 be less than 1024 and not currently used (using a number above 1024
108 presents an obscure security hole depending on the implementation
109 details of your inetd daemon).
110 In /etc/inetd.conf you should add a line like this:
112 swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat swat
114 Once you have edited /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf you need to send
116 a HUP signal to inetd. To do this use kill -1 PID where PID is the
117 process ID of the inetd daemon.
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120 To launch SWAT just run your favorite web browser and point it at
121 "http://localhost:901/".
122 Note that you can attach to SWAT from any IP connected machine but
124 connecting from a remote machine leaves your connection open to
125 password sniffing as passwords will be sent in the clear over the wire.
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128 /etc/inetd.conf
129 This file must contain suitable startup information for the
130 meta-daemon.
131 /etc/services
133 This file must contain a mapping of service name (e.g., swat) to
134 service port (e.g., 901) and protocol type (e.g., tcp).
135 /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
137 This is the default location of the smb.conf(5) server
138 configuration file that swat edits. Other common places that
139 systems install this file are /usr/samba/lib/smb.conf and
140 /etc/smb.conf. This file describes all the services the server is
141 to make available to clients.
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144 swat will rewrite your smb.conf(5) file. It will rearrange the entries
145 and delete all comments, include= and copy= options. If you have a
146 carefully crafted smb.conf then back it up or don't use swat!
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149 This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.
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152 inetd(5), smbd(8), smb.conf(5)
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155 The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
156 Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
157 Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
158 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page
160 sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
161 Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and
162 updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
163 DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to
164 DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.
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