Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: mkpasswd takes 18 hours to finish! Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:15:19 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Harig, Mark A." To: "Rick Hellicar (QMP)" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g8DFFWe04358 Normally you would use: mkpasswd -d MY_DOMAIN | grep MY_USER_ID >> /etc/passwd Of course, now that you have your passwd entry, you should edit /etc/passwd and extract your entry from the file, save it to a separate file, discard /etc/passwd, regenerate it using 'mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd', and add your entry to the new, smaller file. > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Hellicar (QMP) [mailto:Rick DOT Hellicar AT eml DOT ericsson DOT se] > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:34 AM > To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com' > Subject: mkpasswd takes 18 hours to finish! > > > Hi people, > > I've been attempting to set up ssh, because, er..., it seems > to be what everyone else is doing! > > Got to the "mkpasswd -d" stage, which listed a bunch of > people that didn't include me, so I was explicit about the domain: > > mkpasswd -d MY_DOMAIN >> /etc/passwd > > And it proceeded to list 22,795 of my colleagues and the time > it took was... > real 1118m45.573s > user 2m4.187s > sys 2m23.515s > > Yep - over 18 hours for the command to finish! > Can anyone beat that? > > Rick > > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/