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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Mathew Boorman" <mathew DOT boorman AT au DOT cmg DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: mkpasswd -d and big domains
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:58:46 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathew Boorman" <mathew DOT boorman AT au DOT cmg DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 11:24 AM
Subject: mkpasswd -d and big domains


> Hi,
>
> I had a problem running mkpasswd becuase our 'user domain' is
overseas, and
> has about 13k people in it.  I don't want 13k people, and to just run
it
> will take a LONG time.
>
> Is anyone working a a fix?  I would suggest adding either
>  a --current_user option for -d that only get the currently logged in
user.

Noone is working on a fix.

> Alternatively accepting a list of account names to grab would also be
> acceptable, and more flexible too.

Good suggestion.

> I can't use cvs from behind our firewall, so it would be a while
before I
> can grab the code to look at patching it.

You don't need cvs to grab the code. Simply run setup.exe and check the
tick box for src in the appropriate package (cygwin itself). You may
need to click on show full first to see the cygwin package.

mkpasswd doesn't change very often so you should be able to submit a
patch of the tarball source without trouble.

Rob


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