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 22:33:06 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Prompt question Message-ID: <20020306223306.J13590@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3.0.5.32.20020306154226.0097c7b0@pop.shore.net> <3.0.5.32.20020306160958.00970800@pop.shore.net> <3C868761.7090904@cportcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C868761.7090904@cportcorp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:17:21PM -0500, Peter Buckley wrote: > Hmm... I thought that when cygwin was installed, it did "mkpasswd -l >> > /etc/passwd", so there was at least something in /etc/passwd. Do you in > fact have a file in c:\cygwin\bin named mkpasswd.exe? > > It actually should just sit there for a long time when you do "mkpasswd > -d >> /etc/passwd". It is adding all the users from the NT domain to the > passwd file. You can do a "mkpasswd -d | grep bgoldstein >> > /etc/passwd", that will take the same amount of time but only put your > username in the passwd file (where bgoldstein is your username). Urgh, I'd suggest using the -u option instead... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/