Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 00:07:07 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Mahlon <mahlon-dated-1015816890.6d95eb@martini.nu> Cc: 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: <20020306000541.C56511-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020305192130.F19936@martini.nu>
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(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
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