On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > > I set up the CYGWIN system environment var as "binmode tty > > ntsec". I did a > > mkpasswd -d -u mydomainlogin >> /etc/passwd > > For future reference: it has been found that the order > of mkpasswd's '-d' and '-u' options is significant. > On some systems/networks, it has been found that > 'mkpasswd' runs much faster if '-u' precedes '-d'.
No. The order of the *options* doesn't matter. The confusion arises from the fact that the domain name is *not* a parameter of the "-d" command line option, but a stand-alone argument. Thus, putting the domain *name* after the "-d" option, but before the "-u domainuser" option leads to the "-u" option being ignored, and all users in the domain being listed, which can be quite time consuming. If the domain name is given as the last argument, the order of "-d" and "-u domainuser" doesn't matter, i.e., mkpasswd -d -u mydomainlogin mydomainname and mkpasswd -u mydomainlogin -d mydomainname should be identical. Again, if the domain name is specified before the "-u" option, i.e., mkpasswd -d mydomainname -u mydomainlogin the "-u" option is ignored, and all domain users are listed. This is counterintuitive, but that's the way mkpasswd and mkgroup work. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- 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/