CentOS - May 2006 - small "$" issue with samba on centos 4x [dnk]

Good day..... This is a slightly older issue for me. In the past I  
had tried to install Samba on a centos 4.0 box, and the useradd tool  
on Centos 4 would not add the "$" character to the usernames being  
created.  This showed up whenever a domain trust was trying to be  
established for a computer that was logging into the samba share for  
the first time. Maybe I messed something up, but it was not an issue  
on whitebox linux (which i ended up using for the install at that time)

At any rate - I was wondering if anyone ran into this issue on the  
current 4.3 (or even 4.2 for that matter) version?

I have another install  coming up and I would * really * prefer to  
use the latest centos build.

Thanks!


Dustin

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 09:41 -0700, dnk wrote:
> Good day..... This is a slightly older issue for me. In the past I  
> had tried to install Samba on a centos 4.0 box, and the useradd tool  
> on Centos 4 would not add the "$" character to the usernames
being
> created.  This showed up whenever a domain trust was trying to be  
> established for a computer that was logging into the samba share for  
> the first time. Maybe I messed something up, but it was not an issue  
> on whitebox linux (which i ended up using for the install at that time)
> 
Unless that was a EL3 install, there should be no difference.
> At any rate - I was wondering if anyone ran into this issue on the  
> current 4.3 (or even 4.2 for that matter) version?
> 
I would recommend that you use the smbldap tools and LDAP to store your
samba information ...

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html

> I have another install  coming up and I would * really * prefer to  
> use the latest centos build.
> 
If something works on EL4 (any other version) and not CentOS-4 ... I
will fix it :)
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On Mon, 1 May 2006, dnk wrote:
> Good day..... This is a slightly older issue for me. In the past I had
tried
> to install Samba on a centos 4.0 box, and the useradd tool on Centos 4
would
> not add the "$" character to the usernames being created.
>
> I was wondering if anyone ran into this issue on the current 4.3
> I have another install  coming up and I would * really * prefer to use the 
> latest centos build.
Dustin,
I ran into this on 4.0, too.  It's fixed now.

For those interested in the details, here are some notes from
  `rpm -q --changelog shadow-utils` :

* Mon Mar 14 2005 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec at redhat.com>
- allow dollar sign at the end of group/user name (#150770) 2:4.0.3-42.RHEL4

* Wed Oct 27 2004 Adrian Havill <havill at redhat.com> 2:4.0.3-38
- conform to posix for user/group name input checking [def 3.426
   and 3.189] which is posix portable filename character set [3.276]
   while disallowing dash for first char as recommended, and disallow
   dollar sign

-David