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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:01:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Setup: prevent scan for domain users by mkpasswd
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Huijing Zhou wrote:

> I'm working at an university computer lab with over 6000 users in our
> Active Directory. You can imagine how long it takes for Cygwin Setup to
> add all of them into passwd. I know Setup calls mkpasswd with the "-l"
> option, but it doesn't help when I run the installation on a Windows server.
>
> Maybe it's better to change mkpasswd and mkgroup so that they do nothing
> when called with "-l" on a Server, or maybe there are some other ways to
> resolve it. Actually I don't care, I just don't like to wait an hour or
> two for passwd-grp.sh.
>
> Huijing

If you're installing Cygwin just for yourself, simply don't install the
"base-passwd" package initially (i.e., generate an /etc/passwd that you
want manually, using "mkpasswd -u", for example, and then install the
package).  This will not let any of the other users run Cygwin, and you'd
have to add them to /etc/passwd manually afterwards if you want them to
have that ability.

If you do want students to be able to run Cygwin, you'll just have to wait
for passwd-grp.sh to complete.  Leave it overnight, or something...  You'd
have to update /etc/passwd and /etc/group whenever new users/groups are
created, too.
	Igor
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