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Date:	Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:19:01 -0500 (EST)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	"Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	RE: sshd install troubles
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No problem, sorry if I sounded harsh...
	Igor

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:04 PM
> > To: Harig, Mark A.
> > Cc: Jason Dufair; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: RE: sshd install troubles
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
> >
> > > > I set up the CYGWIN system environment var as "binmode tty
> > > > ntsec".  I did a
> > > > mkpasswd -d -u mydomainlogin >> /etc/passwd
> > >
> > > For future reference: it has been found that the order
> > > of mkpasswd's '-d' and '-u' options is significant.
> > > On some systems/networks, it has been found that
> > > 'mkpasswd' runs much faster if '-u' precedes '-d'.
> >
> > No.  The order of the *options* doesn't matter.  The confusion arises
> > from the fact that the domain name is *not* a parameter of the "-d"
> > command line option, but a stand-alone argument.  Thus, putting the
> > domain *name* after the "-d" option, but before the "-u domainuser"
> > option leads to the "-u" option being ignored, and all users in the
> > domain being listed, which can be quite time consuming.  If the domain
> > name is given as the last argument, the order of "-d" and "-u
> > domainuser" doesn't matter, i.e.,
> >       mkpasswd -d -u mydomainlogin mydomainname
> > and
> >       mkpasswd -u mydomainlogin -d mydomainname
> > should be identical.
> > Again, if the domain name is specified before the "-u" option, i.e.,
> >       mkpasswd -d mydomainname -u mydomainlogin
> > the "-u" option is ignored, and all domain users are listed.
> >
> > This is counterintuitive, but that's the way mkpasswd and mkgroup
> > work.
> >       Igor

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