Re: [webmin-l] Creating Samba Machine Account

[Craig W. <cra...@az...>]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 14:13 -0500, Cary Robinson wrote:
> 
> I've been playing around trying to manually add a machine account on a 
> RedHat Enterprise box. It used to work when I was using RedHat 9, but now I 
> get an invalid name error.
> 
> Here is the command I am using, and the error it gives me.
> 
> useradd -r -g trust -d /dev/null -s /dev/null 'test$'
> Invalid User Name   'test$'
> 
> 
> Does anybody know of a work around for this ?
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wouldn't it be easier just to create the machine accounts on the fly?

(in general section of smb.conf)
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /dev/null %u

Craig


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