Re: $ character in user names

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From
Paul C. Boyle <paulcb_mcse@yahoo.com>
Date
5 Mar 2002 12:25:55
Subject
Re: $ character in user names
Message-ID
200203052025.PAA07949@alpha.vaxxine.com

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How did you make out with this problem?
There may be an issure with sinle or double quotes as well.






On March 4, 2002 10:12 pm, you wrote:
> On March 4, 2002 05:35 pm, you wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I need to add a user with a name ending in $ for adding machines to a
> > Samba smbpass file (domain setup).
> >
> > Adduser and pw both reject illegal characters like $. Is there a
> > possibility to manually override that behaviour?
>
> try puting a \ in front of the $ character
>








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> >
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