Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020913141745.027833e0@mail.biapo.com> X-Sender: biapo7@mail.biapo.com Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:27:38 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: rotaiv Subject: RE: mkpasswd takes 18 hours to finish! In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 9/13/2002 11:24 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Not to be over technical but you should use: mkpasswd -d -u MY_USER_ID >> /etc/passwd This will retrieve a single user from the current domain without enumerating all the users. This takes less than a second on my system (around 5,000 users). An earlier email recommended the following: >mkpasswd -d MY_DOMAIN -u MY_USER_ID >> /etc/passwd The problem with this example is if you specify the domain it will still enumerate all the user accounts even though a user name was specified. This will still take 18 hours for some people. According to the help, the actually domain name is not needed as it defaults to the current domain. Another email suggested this syntax: >mkpasswd -d MY_DOMAIN | grep MY_USER_ID >> /etc/passwd This will still enumerate all the user accounts but only keeps the MY_USER_ID line. Once again, the actual domain name is not needed and this will still take 18 hours. Regards, rotaiv. -- 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/