Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:58:21 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Justin Boss <jlboss@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pw and samba Message-ID: <20020223085821.C56258@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020223085548.B56258@grimoire.chen.org.nz>; from jonc@chen.org.nz on Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:55:48AM %2B1300 References: <20020222162835.95726.qmail@web13108.mail.yahoo.com> <20020223085548.B56258@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:55:48AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 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.
If that fails, you'll have to stick with vipw(8).
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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