On Sun, Dec 29, 2002, Philip Reynolds wrote:
> 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 :)


Tell that to the system administrator who wants to use samba, he's got
more than say... 50 machines to add to the domain, and he doesn't care to
waste his time gathering all the machine names.

This has come up more than a few times in the past.  vipw does allow
the $ character, and works great in a 'couple of machines' network.
It's not a viable solution for using samba's machine trust accounts
in an *automated* environment.  Having to manually add your domain
trust accounts is unneeded when samba can do it for you - after a
1 character change in pw.


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