X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_MK,TW_YP,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com connect(): No such file or directory From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: NIS/yp ported? Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:33:43 -0700 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <4BDA6093.2010101@bopp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <4BDA6093.2010101@bopp.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 04/29/2010 09:46 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> I'm just curious - I have a function that I use on Unix to do >> basically a ypcat passwd | grep -i $@. It's very useful in looking up >> users especially since ore and more corporations use anonymous >> numbers or IDs to represent people. But I have to log into the Unix >> system to do it. > Are similar/identical IDs created for those users in the Windows > domain? If so, you can use mkpasswd in place of ypcat passwd to get > something > roughly equivalent. Now that's an idea! You got me thinking. I'm really just using this function as a quick look up of info so that I can quickly say "Well this user id, d23834 is really John Smith" or "Well Smith's user id is d23834". mkpasswd might do that for me! (I know also that I could script up calls to net user but it's not as straight forward). >> I was wondering if there was a cygwin port of NIS or YP so that I >> could do this ypcat from within Cygwin. > I haven't heard of this being available, and a search doesn't turn up > ypcat in any Cygwin package. However, someone apparently ported the > Linux tools to Cygwin at one time: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00144.html > > Too bad the message didn't include any instructions and only refers to > a website which appears to be dead now. Ugh. Well mkpasswd might suffice... Thanks. -- Andrew DeFaria Cranial-rectal inversion disorder - a condition where one's head is where one's butt should be and vice-versa, causing an otherwise sensible person to make an ass of himself. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple