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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 23:35:56 +0100
From: Andreas Fiedler <mail@computerservice-fiedler.de>
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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? 

Thanks,

Andreas

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