[ILUG] Usernames starting with numbers?

[Robert Synnott]

I haven't tried it, 'cause it's a school system and we want the option to 
stop users who try to mess with things from logging on; to get an account the 
user first logs in as "setup" with blank password, this runs a script that 
creates a user entry and home directory for them if they're not already there 
or blocked. It also sets up the pam_mount stuff. The main reason I did this 
is that X seems to require .Xauthority to be on a UNIX file system as it has 
to set special attributes, so it won't run if the user's home directory is 
SMB.
Robert Synnott.

On Thursday 06 June 2002 23:07, David Golden wrote:
> Does pam_mount play nice with winbind ?  *
>
> If you're not already, it might be worth investigating samba's winbind to
> create local users automatically for you when they first login to the linux
> box.  With winbind, you can set a pretty arbitrary template to use for the
> autogenerated unix usernames - samba maintains a mapping db** between
> uid/gid and nt domain rids (or is it sids...I don't want to remember)
>
> The conventional template is to prepend the NT domain name to the NT
> username, so that nt user mydomain\dgolden is unix username (all one
> string) "mydomain+dgolden" or "mydomain\dgolden" with a home directory of
> /home/mydomain/dgolden
>
> David Golden
>
> * if so then, great!, it's my problems solved for integrating my crop of
> linux clients  with an NT domain - my major remaining trouble was the lack
> of user's "P: drive" NT pseudo-home directories...
>
> ** back this mapping db up!