NT machine accounts in FreeBSD?

[Hilary Cheng]

Hi All,

    Will it be a security to hole to Unix System ? Since
these accounts got no password at all.

Regards,

Hilary



Ricardo Campos Passanezi wrote:

> Em 07.08.2000, Paul Jansen escreveu:
>
> > I'm using FreeBSD 4.0. The machine account name I'm
> > trying to add is 6 characters long - 7 including the
> > trailing '$'.
> > DO I need to use some sort of escape character in
> > /etc/password when representing a '$' or something?
> > It's nice to see another Adelaidean on the list.
>
> No, you don't. You just have to use the vipw utility to add the machine to
> you passwd file.
>
> I've just did this:
>
> # vipw
> <then add this entry>:
> smbtest$:*:1515:123::0:0:Testing Samba entry:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
>
> # finger smbtest$
> Login: smbtest$                         Name: Testing Samba entry
> Directory: /nonexistent                 Shell: /sbin/nologin
> Never logged in.
> No Mail.
> No Plan.
>
> Using a FreeBSD 4.0 here.
>
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