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Date:      Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:12:14 -0500
From:      "Paul C. Boyle" <freebsdruns@yahoo.com>
To:        Andreas Fiedler <mail@computerservice-fiedler.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: $ character in user names
Message-ID:  <200203050311.WAA30316@alpha.vaxxine.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C83F6CC.FECF12B8@computerservice-fiedler.de>
References:  <3C83F6CC.FECF12B8@computerservice-fiedler.de>

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On March 4, 2002 05:35 pm, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to add a user with a name ending in $ for adding machines to a Samba
> smbpass file (domain setup).
>
> Adduser and pw both reject illegal characters like $. Is there a
> possibility to manually override that behaviour?
>

try puting a \ in front of the $ character 




> Thanks,
>
> Andreas
>
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