Re: [webmin-l] Creating Samba Machine Account

[Steve C. <cam...@cn...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Robinson" <ca...@ca...>
To: <web...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Creating Samba Machine Account


> I'm re-posting this hoping for an answer. Figured it got lost in all the 
> other excitement the first time I posted it.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> At 02:13 PM 10/21/2005, you 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 ?
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Cary
>>
>>
>>ps... Sorry for the off topicness
>
>

My system says that if you use the -r, you must use the -m option.
This is a RED HAT option, as stated in the man pages.

Steve Campbell
cam...@cn...
Charleston Newspapers