Long machine names...

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Jean-Francois Micouleau wrote:

> On Fri, 22 May 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> moved to samba-technical
> 
> > ok, try using the "map username = " option.  map "support2$" to "sup2$".
> 
> that's a solution for 1 or 2 machines ...

> How do you plan to put 15 char in an 8 char field of /etc/passwd ???

two really nasty solutions are:

1) use a mangling system
2) map all $ accounts to "nobody"