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Date:	Wed, 6 Mar 2002 22:33:06 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Prompt question
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:17:21PM -0500, Peter Buckley wrote:
> Hmm... I thought that when cygwin was installed, it did "mkpasswd -l >> 
> /etc/passwd", so there was at least something in /etc/passwd. Do you in 
> fact have a file in c:\cygwin\bin named mkpasswd.exe?
> 
> It actually should just sit there for a long time when you do "mkpasswd 
> -d >> /etc/passwd". It is adding all the users from the NT domain to the 
> passwd file. You can do a "mkpasswd -d | grep bgoldstein >> 
> /etc/passwd", that will take the same amount of time but only put your 
> username in the passwd file (where bgoldstein is your username).

Urgh, I'd suggest using the -u option instead...

Corinna

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