[ On Monday, December 29, 2003 at 13:36:48 (+0900), taca@back-street.net wrote: ]
> Subject: bin/23922: useradd(8) isn't useful to add machine account for Samba
>
> 	useradd(8) can't add a machine account for Samba.  A machine
> 	account's login name is end with "$" and it is used for adding
> 	a machine to Windows domain provided by Samba.

That's unfortunate.

> >Fix:
> 	Make useradd(8) allow '$' as valid login name or add an option
> 	to relax login name checking.

While a trailing '$' is maybe not the worst thing in the world for a
shell token, and most shells may leave it alone, generally it's not a
very good idea to try to include a '$' in anything that might end up as
a shell token in a script or on the command line (e.g. in a username or
filename).

I think it's very wise of useradd(8) to disallow usernames with '$'
characters in them.

At most it might be OK to add an option to useradd(8) that would allow
the addition of a username with a trailing dollar sign.

Better though would be to fix Samba.  A trailing underscore or hyphen or
some similar non-special character would be much safer for computer
accounts.

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