From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 27 12:33:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 216E437B401; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:33:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:33:51 -0800 From: Juli Mallett To: Terry Lambert Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pw_user.c change for samba Message-ID: <20021127123351.A53582@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021127192126.GA31706@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3DE52B70.44402B98@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3DE52B70.44402B98@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:30:40PM -0800 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: Terry Lambert [ Data: 2002-11-27 ] [ Subjecte: Re: pw_user.c change for samba ] > "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote: > > I know we're in a code freeze right now, but would anyone have a > > problem with this patch once the freeze is up? This brings us closer > > to allowing samba to automatically joining machines to the domain. > > This change permits '$' in the account name, group name, and > login class fields. > > Why is this actually necessary for SAMBA? Go read the SAMBA website, there's a good deal about how us lucky FreeBSD + SAMBA users get to vipw+vi /etc/group by hand, since pw(8) doesn't let one do what [adduser] does. -- Juli Mallett OpenDarwin, Mono, FreeBSD Developer. ircd-hybrid Developer, EFnet addict. FreeBSD on MIPS-Anything on FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message