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From: "Paul C. Boyle" <freebsdruns@yahoo.com>
To: Andreas Fiedler <mail@computerservice-fiedler.de>,
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Subject: Re: $ character in user names
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:12:14 -0500
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On March 4, 2002 05:35 pm, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to add a user with a name ending in $ for adding machines to a Samba
> smbpass file (domain setup).
>
> Adduser and pw both reject illegal characters like $. Is there a
> possibility to manually override that behaviour?
>

try puting a \ in front of the $ character 




> Thanks,
>
> Andreas
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