Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:29:04 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Andreas Fiedler <mail@computerservice-fiedler.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: $ character in user names Message-ID: <20020305142904.A78835@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <3C83F6CC.FECF12B8@computerservice-fiedler.de>; from mail@computerservice-fiedler.de on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:35:56PM %2B0100 References: <3C83F6CC.FECF12B8@computerservice-fiedler.de>
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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 <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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