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From: "Bui, Hung" <Hung DOT Bui AT Nextel DOT com>
To: "'Pavel Tsekov'" <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
Cc: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: How to make 'mkpasswd -d' a faster process?
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 09:32:37 -0400
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Dear Pavel,

I am logging into the company domain name.  In fact, my company does not
allow anyone to log in to the local machine.

Thanks,
Hung

-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 9:20 AM
To: Bui, Hung
Cc: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
Subject: Re: How to make 'mkpasswd -d' a faster process?

When you login to you workstation do you login to
the localdomain (name for this is the same as
machine name) or to the company domain ?

"Bui, Hung" wrote:
>
> Dear Luke,
>
> Thanks for your advise.
>
> However, the problem is that the <domain> has more than 5000 entries.  I
> wonder if there is anyway to specify the exact entry that you want to
> retrieve the information for.  I do not understand how MS domain work, but
> should there be a way you can retrieve entry by keyword?
>
> Thanks again,
> Hung.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Bakken [mailto:luke_bakken AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 4:50 PM
> To: Bui, Hung
> Cc: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject: Re: How to make 'mkpasswd -d' a faster process?
>
> Try specifying the domain to which you belong explicitly:
>
> mkpasswd -d DOMAIN >> /etc/passwd
>
> Luke
>
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Bui, Hung wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am a newbie to cygwin here.
> >
> > Recently, I installed cygwin 1.3.3.  I tried to turn on ntsec, however,
> when
> > I run:
> >
> > mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd
> >
> > mkpasswd traverses the whole directory tree of my company to get
> everyone's
> > name.  I have it run almost all day and mkpasswd still has not found my
id
> > yet.
> >
> > Is there any way to specify the 'user name' to be extracted from the
> domain
> > directory?  Is there a faster version of mkpasswd?
> >
> > BTW, using '| grep <username>' does not help because it takes as long to
> > traverse the whole directory.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Hung
> >
> > hung DOT bui AT Nextel DOT com
> >

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