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On Nov 6 21:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 6 20:51, Christian Franke wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Nov 6 19:34, Christian Franke wrote: > > >>But why does > > >> mkpasswd -l (no host) -- adds a prefix > > >> mkpasswd -l THISHOST -- does not add a prefix > > >>when the machine is in a domain? Not consistent, IMO. > > >That's right. The reason is that the machine name is treated as a > > >foreign machine. In theory, this should always generate names > > >with prefixed machine name, but this is an entirely different > > >code path in mkpasswd/mkgroup. I guess this should be fixed. > > > > > >I wouldn't be unhappy about help... > > > > I would only fix it back to the old behaviour (mkpasswd -l = no prefix), > > sorry :-) > > > > At my real job we run several build & test machines which are members of a > > domain but use various local test user accounts (with no collision with > > domain users due to name space rules). Loosing the ability to use > > prefix-less local user names would break various existing test scripts > > (which are also used on Linux). > > > > Generated emails would have a from address with HOST+USER name part which > > might give interesting results if the mail system somehow interprets the > > NAME+EXTENSION address syntax... > > > > So there are use cases where prefix-less local user names are needed. This > > should be still supported, e.g. by mkpasswd -l, IMO. > > But then... why not keep mkpasswd -L and use that instead? On second thought, it's completely wrong to allow printing local accounts from another machine without prefix. In theory there should be only one option -l [machine], which prints the local accounts of the current machine unprefixed (standalone machine) or prefixed (domain machine), and always prefixed for a foreign machine. The -L option can just go away. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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