From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 17:29:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD9A37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:29:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g251T4478870; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:29:04 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:29:04 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Andreas Fiedler Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: $ character in user names Message-ID: <20020305142904.A78835@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3C83F6CC.FECF12B8@computerservice-fiedler.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3C83F6CC.FECF12B8@computerservice-fiedler.de>; from mail@computerservice-fiedler.de on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:35:56PM +0100 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 On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:35:56PM +0100, Andreas Fiedler 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? Use vipw(8). -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message