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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I'm just curious - I have a function that I use on Unix to do basically
> a ypcat passwd | grep -i $@. It's very useful in looking up users
> especially since ore and more corporations use anonymous numbers or IDs
> to represent people. But I have to log into the Unix system to do it.

Are similar/identical IDs created for those users in the Windows domain?
 If so, you can use mkpasswd in place of ypcat passwd to get something
roughly equivalent.

> I was wondering if there was a cygwin port of NIS or YP so that I could
> do this ypcat from within Cygwin.

I haven't heard of this being available, and a search doesn't turn up
ypcat in any Cygwin package.  However, someone apparently ported the
Linux tools to Cygwin at one time:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00144.html

Too bad the message didn't include any instructions and only refers to a
website which appears to be dead now.

-Jeremy

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