Re: New to OpenBSD

[Tom Cosgrove <tom.cosgrove@arches-consulting.com>]

>>> Barry King 2-Jul-03 23:07 >>>
>
: [snip]
>
> Unless something has changed recently, the only trouble that you're
> likely to run into with using Samba as a Primary Domain Controller is
> adding machine accounts.  The problem is that useradd scripts don't
> like having $ in the username.  Just add them without the suffix $
> and vipw afterwards to add it in manually.  Then you can "smbpasswd -m
> -a" them afterwards without problems.

Note that things changed recently :-)

In adduser.perl revision 1.42 (May 13), Todd Miller added support for
usernames ending with $ (based on a patch from Brian Poole).

/etc/security was also recently updated (June 12) so that it no longer
complains about such usernames (thanks guys, saves me one of my usual
post-install changes!).

Note that you will need to run -current to get these; they are not in
OpenBSD 3.3 release or -stable (OPENBSD_3_3_BASE or OPENBSD_3_3).

Thanks

Tom