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SWAT(8)								       SWAT(8)

NAME
       swat - Samba Web Administration Tool

SYNOPSIS
       swat [-s <smb config file>] [-a] [-P]

DESCRIPTION
       This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

       swat  allows a Samba administrator to configure the complex smb.conf(5)
       file via a Web browser. In addition, a swat configuration page has help
       links  to all the configurable options in the smb.conf file allowing an
       administrator to easily look up the effects of any change.

       swat is run from inetd

OPTIONS
       -s smb configuration file
	      The default configuration file path  is  determined  at  compile
	      time.  The file specified contains the configuration details re‐
	      quired by the smbd(8) server. This is the file  that  swat  will
	      modify.  The  information	 in this file includes server-specific
	      information such as what printcap file to use, as	 well  as  de‐
	      scriptions  of  all  the services that the server is to provide.
	      See smb.conf for more information.

       -a     This option disables authentication and putsswat in  demo	 mode.
	      In that mode anyone will be able to modify the smb.conf file.

	      WARNING: Do NOT enable this option on a production server.

       -P     This option restricts read-only users to the password management
	      page. swat can then be used to  change  user  passwords  without
	      users seeing the "View" and "Status" menu buttons.

       -V     Prints the program version number.

       -s <configuration file>
	      The  file	 specified contains the configuration details required
	      by the server. The information in this file includes server-spe‐
	      cific  information such as what printcap file to use, as well as
	      descriptions of all the services that the server is to  provide.
	      See  smb.conf  for  more	information. The default configuration
	      file name is determined at compile time.

       -d|--debug=debuglevel
	      debuglevel is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this
	      parameter is not specified is zero.

	      The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log
	      files about the activities of the server. At level 0, only crit‐
	      ical  errors  and	 serious warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a
	      reasonable level for day-to-day running - it generates  a	 small
	      amount of information about operations carried out.

	      Levels  above  1 will generate considerable amounts of log data,
	      and should only be used when  investigating  a  problem.	Levels
	      above  3	are  designed  for use only by developers and generate
	      HUGE amounts of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic.

	      Note that specifying this parameter here will override the   pa‐
	      rameter in the smb.conf file.

       -l|--logfile=logdirectory
	      Base  directory  name for log/debug files. The extension ".prog‐
	      name" will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient,  log.smbd,  etc...).
	      The log file is never removed by the client.

       -h|--help
	      Print a summary of command line options.

INSTALLATION
       Swat is included as binary package with most distributions. The package
       manager in this case takes care of the installation and	configuration.
       This section is only for those who have compiled swat from scratch.

       After  you  compile  SWAT  you need to run make install	to install the
       swat binary and the various help files and images.  A  default  install
       would put these in:

       ·  /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat

       ·  /usr/local/samba/swat/images/*

       ·  /usr/local/samba/swat/help/*

   Inetd Installation
       You need to edit your /etc/inetd.conf  and /etc/services to enable SWAT
       to be launched via inetd.

       In /etc/services you need to add a line like this:

       swat 901/tcp

       Note for NIS/YP and LDAP users - you may need to rebuild the  NIS  ser‐
       vice maps rather than alter your local  /etc/services file.

       the  choice of port number isn't really important except that it should
       be less than 1024 and not currently used (using	a  number  above  1024
       presents	 an  obscure security hole depending on the implementation de‐
       tails of yourinetd daemon).

       In /etc/inetd.conf you should add a line like this:

       swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat swat

       Once you have edited /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf you need to send
       a  HUP  signal  to  inetd. To do this use kill -1 PID  where PID is the
       process ID of the inetd daemon.

LAUNCHING
       To launch SWAT just run your favorite  web  browser  and	 point	it  at
       "http://localhost:901/".

       Note that you can attach to SWAT from any IP connected machine but con‐
       necting from a remote machine leaves your connection open  to  password
       sniffing as passwords will be sent in the clear over the wire.

FILES
       /etc/inetd.conf
	      This  file  must	contain	 suitable  startup information for the
	      meta-daemon.

       /etc/services
	      This file must contain a mapping of service name (e.g., swat) to
	      service port (e.g., 901) and protocol type (e.g., tcp).

       /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
	      This  is the default location of the smb.conf(5) server configu‐
	      ration file that swat edits. Other common	 places	 that  systems
	      install this file are  /usr/samba/lib/smb.conf and /etc/smb.conf
	      . This file describes all the services the  server  is  to  make
	      available to clients.

WARNINGS
       swat  will rewrite your smb.conf(5) file. It will rearrange the entries
       and delete all comments, include= and copy=  options.  If  you  have  a
       carefully crafted  smb.conf then back it up or don't use swat!

VERSION
       This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO
       inetd(5), smbd(8), smb.conf(5)

AUTHOR
       The  original  Samba software and related utilities were created by An‐
       drew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the  Samba  Team  as  an  Open
       Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

       The  original  Samba  man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page
       sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of  Open
       Source  software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and up‐
       dated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison.  The	conversion  to
       DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to Doc‐
       Book XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.

								       SWAT(8)
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