Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:11:37 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pw_user.c change for samba Message-ID: <p05200f19ba0ae54093d6@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20021127203401.GA35573@leviathan.inethouston.net> References: <20021127192126.GA31706@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3DE52B70.44402B98@mindspring.com> <20021127203401.GA35573@leviathan.inethouston.net>
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At 2:34 PM -0600 11/27/02, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > Why is this actually necessary for SAMBA? >> >> Is it necessary for all three of these to permit this, or is >> it sufficient to (for example) allow it in the group name? >> > >Samba needs a user account for the domain "machine account" > >the machine account always ends with a $ > >So it would only have to be for the account name I think I'd prefer a somewhat more involved change, one which allowed $ only for account-name, and only as the last character. That seems like a good idea to me. But then, I'm not volunteering to write it... :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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