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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:35:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Owen Rees <owen DOT rees AT hp DOT com>
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Owen Rees wrote:

> --On 12 March 2005 09:30 +0000 John Morrison (Cygwin) wrote:
>
> (with reply-to cygwin-apps, but I can't because I am not subscribed to that
> list)
>
> > Can't help there - I don't maintain mkpasswd's man page.  Personally I
> > didn't know that your user could be in a different domain from the one
> > where it is defined!  Oh well, live and learn.
> >
> > Suggestions to improve things...?
>
> It might be worth mentioning the environment variables USERNAME and USERDOMAIN
> as in
>
> mkpasswd -u $USERNAME -d $USERDOMAIN

One quick note: it's better to use

mkpasswd -u "$USERNAME" -d "$USERDOMAIN"

otherwise spaces in username/domain will screw things up.
	Igor

> This may be useful to people who have a domain login in an environment where
> there is a non-trivial domain structure.
>
> You might also think that 'mkpasswd -l -c' would give you an entry for the
> current domain user that has the same group id as you get by using the
> invocation shown above, but this is not necessarily so.

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