From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 16:25:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA7137B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20104.mail.yahoo.com (web20104.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 765AB43E81 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020917232551.10809.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.156] by web20104.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:25:51 PDT Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:25:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: what is the freebsd version for "useradd -M"? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i'm setting up samba on my FreeBSD box. the goal is to make it a PDC. i'm following the directions from "Samba Unleased" by SAMS. in the instructions, there's mention that each machine needs to have a user account on the server. it gives the following command to setup a machine account: useradd -c "Samba ODC fir MYDOMAIN' -M -s /bin/false -n PERSEUS$ now, I don't know what the -M stands for when you add a user. i'm assuming i need to use "pw useradd". when i try i get an error. the man page for pw shows a -M, but it's only used for the groupadd option. i would like to know what i should use instead of the -M. any and all help will be appreciated. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message