Richard Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 57 lines of wisdom included: > Well, the $ is only required for machine accounts! In Samba 3.0, and > possibly in the latest 2.2.x releases, there is a separate 'add machine > script' parameters. I think it would be better to simply frob the entry in > the master.passwd in that script. > > While I have not tried it myself, I am lead to believe that once you edit > the entry and run the appropriate command, things work.
with a machine name of ``mname'' do: ``pw useradd mname'' then use ``vipw(8)'' to add the dollar. Simple as that. This is a known issue, however, some people like to ignore it :) -- Philip Reynolds | RFC Networks Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +353 (0)1 8832063 http://people.rfc-networks.ie/~phil | www.rfc-networks.ie
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