From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 27 14:23:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 4859837B401; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:23:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:23:48 -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: <20021127142348.A60606@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021127192126.GA31706@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3DE52B70.44402B98@mindspring.com> <20021127203401.GA35573@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3DE5315A.FC6D59B@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: <3DE5315A.FC6D59B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:55:54PM -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: > > > Why is this actually necessary for SAMBA? > > > > > > Is it necessary for all three of these to permit this, or is > > > it sufficient to (for example) allow it in the group name? > > > > > > > Samba needs a user account for the domain "machine account" > > > > the machine account always ends with a $ > > > > So it would only have to be for the account name > > I gathered that from the SAMBA site, too. > > The '$' is a pain. None of the examples in the original post > would have worked, because the '$' was not '\$', and the shell > would have blown chunks over the "variable expansion". Your foundation is flawed, we allow $ in passwd just fine, and the only problem here is whether a pw should let someone do something we support which they might need to do. Juli. -- 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