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From:	=?iso-8859-1?Q?Igor_Rom=E1n_Mari=F1o?= <igor DOT roman DOT marino AT cern DOT ch>
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Subject:	mkpasswd for HUGE domains?
Date:	Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:05:00 +0200
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Hello,
I've had to add a user to /etc/passwd to access my computer by ssh via
cygwin on w2k.
The main problem was, that
a) our modified version of windows (CERN/NICE) doenst allow the creation of
new users to the local computer, as such I had to add the domain user
b) our domain has over 10000 users
c) mkpasswd -d doesnt have a way of especifiying a particular user, only the
whole list
d) getting the whole list takes over 50 minutes (and still counting)

Could the tool be rewriten as to have either
- a way of especify a particular user from a domain that you want to add
- a faster way of getting all the users of such a HUGE domain

Cheers: Igor
--
Igor Román Mariño



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