Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/20/12:20:56
Dave/all:
mkpasswd does fail in our "huge" :-> domain. In the example
I posted, I did not kill mkpasswd, it returned 1, and the
message "mkpasswd (249): [5] Access is denied.".
Here's the example again:
~ $ time mkpasswd -d |wc -l ; echo mkpasswd returned: ${PIPESTATUS[0]} #let it run, did not kill
mkpasswd (249): [5] Access is denied.
1415
real 2m52.938s
user 0m1.858s
sys 0m4.608s
mkpasswd returned: 1
~ $ uname -a;date
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 OurHost08 1.5.19s(0.138/4/2) 20050919 11:51:47 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
I'm not asking for a fix; the "mkpasswd -d -u .." work around is fine for us.
If you want me to do an strace, to help diagnose the failure, I will - but
pls give me the exact commandline switches - I'm only offering (not asking for)
help. If it matters, our domain has "domain local groups".
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thanks/regards,
Tom
On Tue 9/20/05 15:05 BST "Dave Korn" wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Tom Rodman
> >Sent: 20 September 2005 14:51
>
> > On Mon 9/19/05 21:21 EDT Poor Yorick wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd
> >>
> >> seems to hang. I get no output and it never completes.
>
> I don't suppose you've actually allowed it to run forever yet, so "never"
> completes is too strong....
>
> > For us, "mkpasswd -d" dumps ~1500-2000 users and then
> > errs out.
>
> It's a known problem with both mkpasswd and mkgroup that they can take a
> long time to run. If you really want to be sure whether it's doing anything
> or not, you could always try
>
> mkpasswd -d | tee /etc/passwd
>
> instead, and see if lines are being generated, however slowly.
<snip>
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