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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:04:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net>
cc: Jason Dufair <jase AT dufair DOT org>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: sshd install troubles
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote:

> > I set up the CYGWIN system environment var as "binmode tty
> > ntsec".  I did a
> > mkpasswd -d -u mydomainlogin >> /etc/passwd
>
> For future reference: it has been found that the order
> of mkpasswd's '-d' and '-u' options is significant.
> On some systems/networks, it has been found that
> 'mkpasswd' runs much faster if '-u' precedes '-d'.

No.  The order of the *options* doesn't matter.  The confusion arises from
the fact that the domain name is *not* a parameter of the "-d" command
line option, but a stand-alone argument.  Thus, putting the domain *name*
after the "-d" option, but before the "-u domainuser" option leads to the
"-u" option being ignored, and all users in the domain being listed, which
can be quite time consuming.  If the domain name is given as the last
argument, the order of "-d" and "-u domainuser" doesn't matter, i.e.,
	mkpasswd -d -u mydomainlogin mydomainname
and
	mkpasswd -u mydomainlogin -d mydomainname
should be identical.
Again, if the domain name is specified before the "-u" option, i.e.,
	mkpasswd -d mydomainname -u mydomainlogin
the "-u" option is ignored, and all domain users are listed.

This is counterintuitive, but that's the way mkpasswd and mkgroup work.
	Igor
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