Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:52:09 +0200 From: Ronny Buchmann To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: mkpasswd: problem with (UNC-)paths including dollar sign Message-ID: <20010702145209.B4065@cad.star> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.5-ac9 i686 Organization: privat hi mkpasswd has a problem with special paths like \\server\user$ it seems that windows quotes the $ with $ (so it gives $$) below is a patch which changes the behaviour of mkpasswd, but it probably has to be fixed elsewhere (it does of course only work with mkpasswd -m) $ diff -up mkpasswd.c.orig mkpasswd.c --- mkpasswd.c.orig Mon Jul 2 11:35:07 2001 +++ mkpasswd.c Mon Jul 2 12:19:07 2001 @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ psx_dir (char *in, char *out) { if (*in == '\\') *out = '/'; + else if (*in == '$') + if (*(in+1) == '$') + *out = '$'; + else + out--; else *out = *in; in++; -- thanks ronny -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/