Machine accounts and unix UIDs

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Mayers, P J wrote:

> Is the Unix UID used for anything in the machine account?
> 
> Could I do this:
> 
> useradd MACHINE$
> smbpasswd -a -m MACHINE
> userdel MACHINE$

yes, but don't do it.  it's the same as if:

useradd pmayers
smbpasswd -a pmayers
userdel pmayers

what will happen is that when the smb username is looked up, it is checked
in the unix pwdb (getpwnam).  if this fails, the smb user lookup also
fails.