Re: [webmin-l] Creating Samba Machine Account

[Cary R. <ca...@ca...>]

At 12:53 PM 10/25/2005, you wrote:

>----- 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


The -m option only must be used if you want to create a home directory for 
the machine account. I tried it anyway though.. Same error......