Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:12:26 -0600 From: Justin L Boss <jlboss@yahoo.com> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: Mahlon <mahlon-dated-1015816890.6d95eb@martini.nu>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, Andreas Fiedler <mail@computerservice-fiedler.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: $ character in user names [my bad] Message-ID: <3C8631DA.3040103@yahoo.com> References: <20020306000541.C56511-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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This it because you can turn your FreeBSD in the a WinNT PDC or BDC and not have to pay m$ thousands of dollars for each user. I can't stand m$ but big companies and users without a lot of skills use it. So until we get FreeBSD as the #1 desktop OS that is just how it is. Peter Leftwich wrote: > (Ooops, sorry about that. I thought we were talking 'manual.') > > P.S. Why anyone would want to samba across from Win32 to UFS is beyond me. > > -- > Peter Leftwich > President & Founder > Video2Video Services > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA > +1-413-403-9555 > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Mahlon wrote: > >>Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >>Received: from mail3.registeredsite.com (mail3.registeredsite.com >> [64.224.9.12]) >> by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A07F28BE6 >> for <pete@cloud9.net>; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:21:50 -0500 (EST) >>Received: from mail.video2video.com (mail.video2video.com [209.35.10.22]) >> by mail3.registeredsite.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id >> g262Qcx10984 >> for <pete@cloud9.net>; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:26:39 -0500 >>Received: from mx2.freebsd.org [209.35.10.22] by mail.video2video.com >> (SMTPD32-6.06) id AB4C9880150; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 22:21:48 -0500 >>Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) >> by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP >> id A89E1554A3; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:21:36 -0800 (PST) >> (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) >>Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 538) >> id 1B8EA37B41A; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:21:34 -0800 (PST) >>Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) >> by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP >> id CFED22E808A; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:21:33 -0800 (PST) >>Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.12); Tue, >> 5 Mar 2002 19:21:33 -0800 >>Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>Received: from laika.martini.nu (12-224-18-46.client.attbi.com >> [12.224.18.46]) >> by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A8E337B417 >> for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:21:31 -0800 (PST) >>Received: (qmail 23523 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Mar 2002 03:21:30 -0000 >>Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:21:30 -0800 >>To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> >>Cc: Andreas Fiedler <mail@computerservice-fiedler.de>, >> freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >>Subject: Re: $ character in user names >>Message-ID: <20020305192130.F19936@martini.nu> >>References: <3C83F6CC.FECF12B8@computerservice-fiedler.de> >> <200203050311.WAA30316@alpha.vaxxine.com> >> <20020305183702.E19936@martini.nu> >> <20020306155816.A83006@grimoire.chen.org.nz> >>Mime-Version: 1.0 >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>Content-Disposition: inline >>User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i >>In-Reply-To: <20020306155816.A83006@grimoire.chen.org.nz>; from >> "jonc@chen.org.nz" on Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:58:16PM >>X-Sysinfo: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, up 2:04 >>From: Mahlon <mahlon-dated-1015816890.6d95eb@martini.nu> >>X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-RELEASE-i386) >>Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >>List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> >>List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/>; (Web Archive) >>List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) >>List-Subscribe: >> <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> >>List-Unsubscribe: >> <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> >>X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>Precedence: bulk >> >>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002, Jonathan Chen wrote: >> >>>On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:37:02PM -0800, Mahlon wrote: >>>[...] >>> >>>>If this is for a samba PDC, and you want automatic joining of new >>>>machines to the domain, manually editing vipw won't help you either, >>>>Andrew. >>>> >>>You *can* use vipw(8). I've done it for at least 5 machines on the >>>local network, and it works fine. >>> >>Again, if you want *samba* to do the adding of machines automatically, >>vipw will not work. >> >>vipw works fine for doing it manually, that's not in question. >>However, that's a real drag in any PDC environment with more than a handful >>of machines - especially when samba can do it for you in the first place. >> >>Patch pw, and add something along the lines of >>add user script = /usr/sbin/pw useradd %u -s /sbin/nologin .... etc delete user script = /usr/sbin/pw userdel %u >>To your smb.conf - then never worry about it again. (Until you upgrade. ;) >> >>-Mahlon >>Mahlon E. Smith jabber id: mahlon@chat.martini.nu >>http://www.martini.nu/ get pgp key: mahlon-pgp@martini.nu >>.......................................................................... >> rusty corkscrew acupuncture >> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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