On Tuesday 17 September 2002 07:25 pm, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > i'm setting up samba on my FreeBSD box. the goal is to make it a PDC. > > i'm following the directions from "Samba Unleased" by SAMS. > > in the instructions, there's mention that each machine needs to have a > user account on the server. > > it gives the following command to setup a machine account: > > useradd -c "Samba ODC fir MYDOMAIN' -M -s /bin/false -n PERSEUS$ > > now, I don't know what the -M stands for when you add a user. i'm > assuming i need to use "pw useradd". when i try i get an error. > > the man page for pw shows a -M, but it's only used for the groupadd > option. > > i would like to know what i should use instead of the -M. > > any and all help will be appreciated. >
'pw' has different arguments based on the first argument. If you say 'pw useradd' then "-M" is not valid. You'll see this if you carefully read the man page. What I think you want is -g groupname . IE; for group 'staff", it would be 'pw useradd username -g staff -y /dev/null -s /bin/false' . I'm not sure this works right with machine accounts, where the last character of the user name is '$'. I've never tried it. I just run 'vipw' and add the line. username$:I:4055:3000::0:0:Machine Foobo:/dev/null:/bin/false Then you run 'smbpasswd -a -m username' . -jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
