[Samba] vampire question

[John H Terpstra]

On Monday 14 March 2005 14:29, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> aren't posix account names supposed to be without blanks ? I would be most
> surprised if a machine account with a blank would work with Samba !

Is this "no blank" specified in any standards? It seems someone has decided 
that Linux should no longer permit blanks in user names and/or group names.

- John T.

>
> Schlomo
>
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Phil Dawson wrote:
> > Hi Kurt,
> >
> > Don't know if this is any help.  We currently have a similar problem on
> > RHAS 3 & 4.
> >
> > RedHat bug report:
> >
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-November/msg01576.h
> >tml
> >
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> > Phil
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> > "Kurt A. Brust" <emailme at Kurtbrust.com>
> > Sent by: samba-bounces+pd=gedys.co.uk at lists.samba.org
> > 11/03/2005 18:34
> >
> > To
> > samba at samba.org
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> > [Samba] vampire question
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> > . when running net
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> > > rpc vampire -S ntserver -U Administrator%stacy182  --- everything
> >
> > seems
> >
> > > to run fine.... however I do get
> > > could not create posix account info for 'machine name$'
>
> --
> Regards,
> Schlomo

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