In message <m1Ab6Kc-0003NhC@proven.weird.com>
	on Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:57:50 -0500 (EST),
	"Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com> wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I think this is better solution.

> 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.
I don't know the exact reason that Samba use trailing '$' for computer
account but I guess Samba select explicitly special chracter to
avoid name collision.  And I don't think it's easy to change Samba's
specification.

-- 
Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>