Machine Account Usernames and *BSD

[David Bannon]

At 05:47 PM 10/12/2000 -0500, Jacob Rosenberg wrote:
>[from: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/ntdom_faq/page2.html]
>
>>To create the machine account on the Samba PDC, first create an account
>>in /etc/passwd for the username workstation_name$. .....

>The problem with this is that FreeBSD does not seem terribly eager to
>permit the '$' character into userids. 

Please look at the 2.2 FAQ and Howtos, (any mirror) samba main page ->
Documentation -> Pre-release 2.2 PDC documentation. 
You will see FAQ question "I cannot include a '$' in a machine name." ? It
deals with just that issue. (make the entry without the $ and change it
with vipw.).

David

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