Bug 140582 - Not able to add machines to samba domain under Fedora Core 3
Summary: Not able to add machines to samba domain under Fedora Core 3
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 138782
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: shadow-utils
Version: 3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-23 18:41 UTC by Paul Espinosa
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:07:15 UTC
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Description Paul Espinosa 2004-11-23 18:41:39 UTC
Description of problem:

When samba is configures to be a PDC and you try to add a new machine
to the domain samba adds a machine account to the samba user database
and the unix passwd file.  In order to differentiate this machine
account from a regular user account samba uses a '$' as a suffix to
the name.  Previously to FC3 adding a user account in the form of
'machine1$' worked fine with a command of something similiar to:
useradd machine1\$  (with whatever preferences for group and home
directory - I used -d /dev/null -g machines).

In FC3 this no longer works.  This is the attempt and error message:

	root@server(~): useradd machine1\$
	useradd: invalid user name 'machine1$'

So as it stands FC3 is not usable to run samba as a domain controller.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

samba-3.0.8-0.pre1.3 on FC3 i386

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run useradd machine1\$
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

useradd: invalid user name 'machine1$'

Expected results:

User machine1$ added to system

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jay Fenlason 2004-11-23 19:09:29 UTC
This isn't a Samba problem.  This is a shadow-utils problem that 
breaks Samba.  I'm redirecting this to the correct component. 

Comment 2 Sitsofe Wheeler 2004-11-23 22:17:15 UTC
Looks a lot like bug 138782

Comment 3 Eido Inoue 2004-11-24 05:16:42 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138782 ***

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:07:15 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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