How to add FreeBSD users/groups with whitespaces in the name, so NFSv4 and SAMBA can use them?

Reply: Rick Macklem : "Re: How to add FreeBSD users/groups with whitespaces in the name, so NFSv4 and SAMBA can use them?"
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From: Aurélien_Couderc <aurelien.couderc2002_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:45:00 UTC

Both SAMBA and NFSv4 have to deal with user and group names with
<space> in their strings.
Common example is the Windows/OSX "Domain Users".

Is there any solution in FreeBSD pw to add such groups and users?
Because pw groupadd group -n 'Domain_Users' -g 2016029 does not work.

Aurélien
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