From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 27 13:11:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C7D937B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:11:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B2043E4A for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:11:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gARLBcYd145496; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:11:38 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20021127203401.GA35573@leviathan.inethouston.net> References: <20021127192126.GA31706@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3DE52B70.44402B98@mindspring.com> <20021127203401.GA35573@leviathan.inethouston.net> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:11:37 -0500 To: "David W. Chapman Jr." , Terry Lambert From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: pw_user.c change for samba Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:34 PM -0600 11/27/02, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > Why is this actually necessary for SAMBA? >> >> Is it necessary for all three of these to permit this, or is >> it sufficient to (for example) allow it in the group name? >> > >Samba needs a user account for the domain "machine account" > >the machine account always ends with a $ > >So it would only have to be for the account name I think I'd prefer a somewhat more involved change, one which allowed $ only for account-name, and only as the last character. That seems like a good idea to me. But then, I'm not volunteering to write it... :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message