From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 12 18:57: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.pressenter.com (hermes.pressenter.com [209.224.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C0AB37B40F for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [209.224.37.171] (helo=daggar) by hermes.pressenter.com with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15hLkN-0003Cr-00; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 20:56:56 -0500 From: "Stephen Hilton" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Cc: "Philip Hallstrom" Subject: RE: Dollar sign in passwd file question... Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 20:58:20 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <20010912162651.F28325-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com> Importance: Normal 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 > > Hi - > I know what the dollar sign means, but I'm curious as to why it's > using them in my passwd file. In particular, it's only doing it for some > of the passwords and on certain machines (all using the same snapshot to > install, all recently setup the same way). > Philip, Are these FreeBSD systems using Samba? this could be a reason for the "$" following a name in the passwd file. Also the encrypted password may contain a dollar sign among other characters. Regards, Stephen Hilton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message