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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:49:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Luke Bakken <luke_bakken AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: "Bui, Hung" <Hung DOT Bui AT Nextel DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to make 'mkpasswd -d' a faster process?
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Try specifying the domain to which you belong explicitly:

mkpasswd -d DOMAIN >> /etc/passwd

Luke


On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Bui, Hung wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am a newbie to cygwin here.
>
> Recently, I installed cygwin 1.3.3.  I tried to turn on ntsec, however, when
> I run:
>
> mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd
>
> mkpasswd traverses the whole directory tree of my company to get everyone's
> name.  I have it run almost all day and mkpasswd still has not found my id
> yet.
>
> Is there any way to specify the 'user name' to be extracted from the domain
> directory?  Is there a faster version of mkpasswd?
>
> BTW, using '| grep <username>' does not help because it takes as long to
> traverse the whole directory.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Hung
>
> hung DOT bui AT Nextel DOT com
>
>
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