[Samba] FreeBSD as a PDC

[Bruno Afonso]

On 10 Dec 2002 at 17:22, John H Terpstra wrote:

> A work-around is:
> 
> 1. Add the machine account without the trailing '$'

Let's see if with the new non-perl pw on 5.x there is a possibility to not go through this 
hassle.

> 2. Then edit the /etc/passwd (and if you have shadow passwords enabled
> also the /etc/shadow file) by adding a trailing '$' to the login id.

Use vipw, add the $. 
You can make a script to edit the master.passwd and run pwd_mkdb as it is the same as 
editing using vipw. And with a script, it's automatic..


Bruno Miguel Afonso, Biological Eng. student.
brunomiguel at dequim dot ist dot utl dot pt
D.E.Q. @ I.S.T. - Portugal
"Linux is for Microsoft haters. BSD is for Unix lovers."