Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/09/17/15:48:20
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:43:47PM -0400, Li-Kai Liu wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>>>actually, i am using ntsec. does ntsec have impact on what mkpasswd or
>>>mkgroup is outputting?
>>>
>>
>>Nope. It can't. ntsec needs the passwd file which mkpasswd
>>produces. It's a chicken-egg problem.
>>
>>Corinna
>>
>i thought so ... is there a way to make mkpasswd generate correct group
>id output?
>
>or else, i've thought of writing a small program that gracefully
>combines current cygwin setting (/etc/passwd, /etc/group) and NT setting
>(mkpasswd, mkgroup). everytime i change a user on NT requires me to
>first generate mkpasswd over existing /etc/passwd, potentially losing
>info on user shell selection, and lose the past manual corrections on
>group id. the small program will take care of automatically correcting
>group id in mkpasswd output and importing shell selection from previous
>/etc/passwd. do you think there is necessity in doing this?
I think that you should add this capability to mkpasswd and mkgroup if
it is important.
cgf
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