Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 11:15:49 -0400 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: Finding your SID (was Re: problem starting inetd as NT service) In-reply-to: To: "Gerald S. Williams" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-followup-to: "Gerald S. Williams" , cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <20020509151548.GI1236@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i References: <20020509124901.GE1236@tishler.net> Jerry, On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:53:41AM -0400, Gerald S. Williams wrote: > Thanks for the info. You are welcome. > BTW, I just found out that people in another site ARE able > to use mkpasswd and mkgroup with the -d option. I may be > able to have them get everyone's information. I work for a very large company and we have similar issues too. > > BTW, you also need to update your /etc/group file as follows: > > > > $ mkgroup -d | egrep 'Domain (Users|Admins|Guests)' >>/etc/group > > I was leaving out the "egrep". Should I suppress the other stuff? Again, I work for a very large company that just got bigger on 5/7/2002 (hint). :,) After about 45 minutes, mkgroup -d produced about 6000 entries and still had not hit H yet! I prefer to "suppress the other stuff". I don't know whether or not that will be your preference too. Jason -- 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/