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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:58:21 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: mkpasswd and domain fail with windows network
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On 3/14/2012 5:57 PM, Furash, Gary F - (furashg) wrote:
> I've had this problem in the past with in other organizations and have never been able to get around it.
>
> Problem: running mkpasswd w/ '-D' doesn't work/finish
>
> Details: I am running Cygwin on Windows 7 64 bit in a typical work environment. I don't think that matters because I've had this exact problem before with other employers. The MKGROUP command with the domain parameter works fine, and populates all the real domains into /etc/groups. However,
> - if I run mkpasswd with only -L, I just get the local accounts, none of
> which are me (I'm part of a domain);
> - if I run mkpasswd with -D, it just hangs indefinitely
> - it doesn't matter if I run it as Administrator or not
> - it doesn't matter if port 135 is open or not. I checked that
>   because if I run the mkpasswd -D command with the laptop disconnected
>   from the network, it actually fails with an RPC unable to contact domain error.
> - using -D versus -d doesn't make a difference, as does adding -l
>   (it just spits out the local accounts then fails or hangs.

This can take a long time in large domains.  An alternative is to use the
-c/-C to include just the current user.

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Larry

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