User Accounts

User Accounts define persons with some level of authorization to use certain computer and network resources. Typically, in a network environment, a user account is provided to each person allowed to access a computer or network, where policies and permissions then define what explicit rights that user account has access to. To define SAMBA network users for your Ubuntu system, you may use the smbpasswd command.


For example to add a SAMBA user to your Ubuntu system with the user name jseinfeld, you would enter this command at the prompt:

smbpasswd -a jseinfeld

The smbpasswd application will then prompt you to enter a password for the user:

New SMB password:

Enter the password you wish to set for the user, and the smbpasswd application will ask you to confirm the password:

Retype new SMB password:

Confirm the password, and smbpasswd will add the entry for the user to the SAMBA password file.

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