Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:55:48 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Justin Boss <jlboss@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pw and samba Message-ID: <20020223085548.B56258@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020222162835.95726.qmail@web13108.mail.yahoo.com>; from jlboss@yahoo.com on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:28:35AM -0800 References: <20020222162835.95726.qmail@web13108.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:28:35AM -0800, Justin Boss wrote:
> I use FreeBSD 4.4 with Samba. I'm trying to get the
> 'add user script' working so it will add workstation
> trust account. Workstation trust account end with a $
> ( workstation$ ) but pw gives me a invalid character
> '$'. Currently my add user script looks like this 'pw
> useradd -n %m$ -g staff -s /sbin/nologin -c %m -d /'
> %m is the value of the name of the workstation that is
> passed by Samba. What I was thinking needs to be done
> is have pw except the $ as a valid character. Is there
> another way?
The '$' is signicant to all shells. Use \$ instead.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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