* De: Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-11-27 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: pw_user.c change for samba ]
> "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote:
> > > Why is this actually necessary for SAMBA?
> > >
> > > Is it necessary for all three of these to permit this, or is
> > > it sufficient to (for example) allow it in the group name?
> > >
> >
> > Samba needs a user account for the domain "machine account"
> >
> > the machine account always ends with a $
> >
> > So it would only have to be for the account name
>
> I gathered that from the SAMBA site, too.
>
> The '$' is a pain. None of the examples in the original post
> would have worked, because the '$' was not '\$', and the shell
> would have blown chunks over the "variable expansion".
Your foundation is flawed, we allow $ in passwd just fine, and
the only problem here is whether a pw should let someone do
something we support which they might need to do.
Juli.
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