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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:12:03 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: mkpasswd -ld: The user name could not be found.
Message-ID: <20050111151203.GA678621@Worldnet>
References: <41E3CEE5 DOT 2030805 AT coware DOT com>
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
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> Hi folks,
> 
> Currently I am trying to create a valid /etc/passwd
> using 'mkpasswd -ld >/etc/passwd'. But it dies with
> 
> 	The user name could not be found.
> 
> Of course without telling me _which_ user it could
> not find. Poor design :-(. Any idea how this can be
> solved?

Are you sure it died? Is /etc/passwd empty?
Out of curiosity, does mkpasswd -lds also fail?
(even if it doesn't, the passwd file is pretty useless
 because won't have the sids)
 
Pierre
  

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