Automatic machine account setup

[David Bannon]

At 05:40 AM 1/5/01 +0100, Christian Hergl wrote:
>....
>So I altered the following line of the smb.conf:
>
>"add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Machine -d 
>/dev/null -s /bin/false %m$"	
>
>into this:
>
>"add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -c NTMachine -d 
>/dev/null -s /bin/false %m$ && /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd -a -m %m$"
>

Hmm... Cute. smbd acutally does the adding to smbpasswd stuff itself,
although that is a part that a lot of installs have had trouble. I'm sure
JFM did not intend it to work that way but, gee, if it works it might keep
things going for a while.

The -n flag is to stop the RedHat silly idea a creating a group for every
user. I don't thing too may other systems need it.

>there without the -n flag. The group "machine" must exist, or you get 

David
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