Samba and $

[Katinka Mills]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Micheas Herman
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 2:52 PM
> To: FreeBSD List
> Cc: FreeBSD List
> Subject: Re: Samba and $
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 17:41, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:25, Bob Collins wrote:
> > > At 02:07 PM 8/4/2003 -0500, gfsd wrote:
> > > >Why can't i create a user with a $ on the end? For machine 
> trust accounts 
> > > >i need to add each one by hand, instead of on the fly 
> creation. When I use 
> > > >adduser it will not let me add a user with a $ on the end, 
> is there a way 
> > > >around that?
> 
>         adduser is a perl script in 4.x. You can edit the file to allow
>         '$' in the user name. Or further hack it so that it knows that
>         any name that ends in '$' is a samba machine name and have it
>         execute the correct smbpasswd command as well.
>         
>         
>         A quick visit to an active irc channel should get you any help
>         you need. (it did me a long time ago.)
>         
>         good luck,
>         
>         
>         Micheas

For a good IRC channel and network here is the place I use :

  #c and #freebsd on irc.freenode.net

Regards,

Kat.
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