Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:24:25 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Samba machine account creation Message-ID: <p0600201dbbf02bd2a306@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20031130131209.GK44778@crom.vickiandstacey.com> References: <20031130131209.GK44778@crom.vickiandstacey.com>
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At 1:12 PM +0000 11/30/03, Stacey Roberts wrote: >Hello, > Some time ago, I saw a thread on this list that had >concluded that the adduser facility in FreeBSD had been >amended so that samba machine accounts can be created >with the required "$" at the end of the desired machine >user name. The 'pw' command was changed in freebsd-current to allow a '$' to be the last character of a userid or group name. This was done in January, and MFC-ed to freebsd-stable in February. This change is more significant in freebsd-current than freebsd-stable, because 'adduser' is a perl-script in freebsd-stable. It does not use the 'pw' command. In freebsd-current, 'adduser' was rewritten (because perl is no longer in the base system), and the rewrite depends on the 'pw' command. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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