From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 12:25:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.vaxxine.com (alpha.vaxxine.com [209.5.212.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4C637B400 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 12:25:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (ppp220.digi-t3.st-cath.niagara.net [209.5.215.220]) by alpha.vaxxine.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA07949; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:25:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200203052025.PAA07949@alpha.vaxxine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Paul C. Boyle" To: "Paul C. Boyle" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: $ character in user names Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:26:52 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <3C83F6CC.FECF12B8@computerservice-fiedler.de> <200203050311.WAA30316@alpha.vaxxine.com> In-Reply-To: <200203050311.WAA30316@alpha.vaxxine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How did you make out with this problem? There may be an issure with sinle or double quotes as well. On March 4, 2002 10:12 pm, you wrote: > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message