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Subject: RE: sshd install troubles
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:07:30 -0500
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Thanks for the clarification!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:04 PM
> To: Harig, Mark A.
> Cc: Jason Dufair; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: sshd install troubles
> 
> 
> 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
> -- 
> 				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
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>      |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski
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> 
> "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular 
> Science, Oct'02, p.51
> 
> 

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