Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:57:20 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup Message-ID: <20020306185720.GC16560@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E4AF@IIS000> <20020306101840.Q13590@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3C866564.9060507@DeFaria.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C866564.9060507@DeFaria.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:52:20AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>It's not harmless. mkpasswd -d will result in an error message on >>stand alone systems. > >Seems to me that mkpasswd could be made smart enough to try -d and if >an error is returned issue a warning that it's switching to -l mode. This would result in some people experiencing the twenty to thirty minute delays that were previously mentioned. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/