Samba and $

[Jon Reynolds]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 00:02, Katinka Mills wrote:
> > -----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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Thanks for the tips, I have never used an irc channel before and have
been hooked on mailing lists like a crack addict. Are irc channels
really that good at helping? I was under the impression they were just
like chat rooms.

Jon