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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:31:21 +1000
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Subject: Re: How to resolve 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' message
From: Robert Mark Bram <robertmarkbram DOT cygwin AT gmail DOT com>
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Hi David,

> Never mind.  The strategy of using "-ldu" on mkpasswd along with "-ld"
> on mkgroup is useful.  We have 8 zillion users, but a much smaller
> number of groups.  The "mkgroup -ld" completed in just a few minutes.

In a corporate environment (with domains), I run this:
mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd; mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group

I haven't worked out a nice way to update /etc/passwd to reflect a
different home dir, so I make sure to set HOME environment variable
and the run this:
cat /etc/passwd | sed "s|:/home/$USERNAME:|:$HOME:|" &gt; /etc/passwd

This gave me such a big headache recently, I wrote about it here:
http://bit.ly/t7qRK

Rob
:)

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