Long machine names...
Jean-Francois Micouleau
Jean-Francois.Micouleau at utc.fr
Thu May 21 15:01:31 GMT 1998
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > How do you plan to put 15 char in an 8 char field of /etc/passwd ???
>
> two really nasty solutions are:
>
> 1) use a mangling system
:-( So smbpasswd have to mangle the name and write it in /etc/passwd ?
IMHO it's bad, unix sysadmin are paid to maintain their files, it's not
samba's job.
> 2) map all $ accounts to "nobody"
So you rely on uid from smbpasswd file to make machines' RID ? What's the
point to have machines (sorry trusts) accounts in /etc/passwd ?
Jean Francois
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