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From: "Rick Hellicar (QMP)" <Rick DOT Hellicar AT eml DOT ericsson DOT se>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: mkpasswd takes 18 hours to finish!
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:23:11 +0200
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Igor wrote:
> It may be that the order of arguments matters, and that the correct way to
>  specify the username and the domain would be
> 	mkpasswd -u MY_USER_ID -d MY_DOMAIN >> /etc/passwd
> but the point remains the same.

You're right, Igor.  I'd already tried the -u switch and seen that
it didn't appear to work; I'd not thought of the possibility that
the mkpasswd code was sensitive to the order of the command-line
switches!
The answer pops out in under a second using -u before -d.  Perfect.

Rick.

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