On 10 Dec 2002 at 17:22, John H Terpstra wrote: > A work-around is: > > 1. Add the machine account without the trailing '$'
Let's see if with the new non-perl pw on 5.x there is a possibility to not go through this hassle. > 2. Then edit the /etc/passwd (and if you have shadow passwords enabled > also the /etc/shadow file) by adding a trailing '$' to the login id. Use vipw, add the $. You can make a script to edit the master.passwd and run pwd_mkdb as it is the same as editing using vipw. And with a script, it's automatic.. Bruno Miguel Afonso, Biological Eng. student. brunomiguel at dequim dot ist dot utl dot pt D.E.Q. @ I.S.T. - Portugal "Linux is for Microsoft haters. BSD is for Unix lovers." -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
