From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 18:58:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59CF937B402 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 18:58:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g262wGA83040; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:58:16 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:58:16 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Mahlon Cc: "Paul C. Boyle" , Andreas Fiedler , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: $ character in user names Message-ID: <20020306155816.A83006@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3C83F6CC.FECF12B8@computerservice-fiedler.de> <200203050311.WAA30316@alpha.vaxxine.com> <20020305183702.E19936@martini.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020305183702.E19936@martini.nu>; from mahlon-dated-1015814223.a59def@martini.nu on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:37:02PM -0800 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 On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:37:02PM -0800, Mahlon wrote: [...] > If this is for a samba PDC, and you want automatic joining of new > machines to the domain, manually editing vipw won't help you either, > Andrew. You *can* use vipw(8). I've done it for at least 5 machines on the local network, and it works fine. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive." - Ferris Bueller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message