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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:23:17 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Mkpasswd Documentation Deficit; Mkpasswd -c Working?
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Hi,

Pierre's recent suggestion to invoke "mkpasswd" with the "-c" option 
sent me to the documentation to learn what that option does. Neither 
"info" nor "man" document the "-c" option.

The "--help" option does include it, however:

% mkpasswd --help
Usage: mkpasswd [OPTION]... [domain]

This program prints a /etc/passwd file to stdout

Options:
    -l,--local              print local user accounts
    -c,--current            print current account, if a domain account
    -d,--domain             print domain accounts (from current domain
                            if no domain specified)
    -o,--id-offset offset   change the default offset (10000) added to uids
                            in domain accounts.
    -g,--local-groups       print local group information too
                            if no domain specified
    -m,--no-mount           don't use mount points for home dir
    -s,--no-sids            don't print SIDs in GCOS field
                            (this affects ntsec)
    -p,--path-to-home path  use specified path instead of user account home dir
    -u,--username username  only return information for the specified user
    -h,--help               displays this message
    -v,--version            version information and exit

One of `-l', `-d' or `-g' must be given.



I don't know if it's a bug or not, but "-c" does not change the output 
of "mkpasswd -l" on my system (I'm not in a domain, so -d isn't an 
option). The "-c" option is not valid alone.


Randy 


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