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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:58:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
cc: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: mkpasswd and domain users.
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> The domain user who indirectly generated 7 mails to the list today
> because he had forgotten to run mkgroup -d made me boil over.
>
> I would like to suggest a strong measure: include the current
> (domain) user in the output of mkpasswd -l . Ditto for mkgroup.
>
> What do you think? Is there a down side?
>
> Pierre

Will mk{passwd|group} -l attempt to contact the domain controller, then?
If so, will there be a delay (if it's not available)?  If not (i.e.,
similar to -c), will it print the correct information (especially group
information)?
	Igor
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