Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: yes Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:52:20 -0800 Organization: Salira Optical Networks Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3C866564.9060507@DeFaria.com> References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E4AF@IIS000> <20020306101840.Q13590@cygbert.vinschen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.204.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1015441169 31163 206.184.204.2 (6 Mar 2002 18:59:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Mar 2002 18:59:29 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Corinna Vinschen wrote: > It's not harmless. mkpasswd -d will result in an error message on > stand alone systems. Seems to me that mkpasswd could be made smart enough to try -d and if an error is returned issue a warning that it's switching to -l mode. > It's actually the other way around. mkpasswd -l > is harmless on domain members and domain controllers. It's also less useful IMHO. -- 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/