NT machine accounts in FreeBSD?

[Sean Winn]

Add them using vipw or similar; they don't need home directories or
passwords, just a unique UID. The adduser or pw commands may not deal with
'$' in the username, but the password file itself is fine with them.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Jansen" <vlaero at yahoo.com.au>
To: "Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM" <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 5:54 PM
Subject: NT machine accounts in FreeBSD?


> I posted a message to the samba list, but then I
> figured people on this list might have more of and
> idea on this one.
> It seems to me that freeBSD doesn't like login names
> with a '$' in them.  Is it possible to somehow add the
> required NT machine account (machinename$) to a FreeSD
> system so as to allow login from and NT workstation to
> a SAMBA controlled Domain?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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