Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/13/16:25:06
At 9/13/2002 02:54 PM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Yes, but the original poster's problem was that his username was not in
>the default domain. Thus, your solution won't work.
You are correct - missed that point. Sorry.
>This is not true.
>
>Specifying both the username and the domain name results in extracting
>just that one user from the domain (as can be plainly seen from the source
>of mkpasswd.c).
>
>It may be that the order of arguments matters, and that the correct way to
>specify the username and the domain would be
> mkpasswd -u MY_USER_ID -d MY_DOMAIN >> /etc/passwd
>but the point remains the same.
Once again, correct if you use the second syntax. For some reason, putting
the -d before -u causes to list all users whereas putting -u before -d only
lists the single user. I fail to see why the order of the switches should
be import but apparently it is.
>The last point is true, but, as far as I could see, was not disputed by
>anyone.
Only reason I brought this up is because the original poster highlighted
the fact it took 18 hours so time was a consideration. By enumerating all
users then using grep, it would still take the same amount of
time. Clearly, if you only want a single user, the '-u -d' combination is
the most efficient.
Regards,
rotaiv.
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