mkpasswd: option to force the 'primary' domain?

[Tim Magee <Tim dot Magee at thales-esecurity dot com>]

Now then,

Since Cygwin 1.7.34 dropped, mkpasswd has been problematic for us.  Our 
problem is with the way user names pulled from outside the primary 
domain get decorated.  My question is: will there ever be a way to tell 
mkpasswd/mkgroup "make <some non-primary domain> the one whose users get 
undecorated names"?

We have Windows machines in one AD domain, and all our users in a 
different AD domain.  According to the 'POSIX accounts, permissions and 
security' page, the machine's domain is considered the primary one. 
"mkpasswd -d" will generate undecorated names for that domain, and 
decorated names for any other named domain.

We use SSH-based tools a great deal here, and we use Cygwin to make our 
Windows machines behave like members of our POSIX machine community, so 
having our usernames appear the same on all machines is very desirable.

I think I can recreate the pre-1.74 behaviour with a little seddery, but 
I'd bet folding money that my seddery isn't future-proof.  So, are 
mkpasswd/mkgroup ever likely to get an option to force the "undecorated 
users" domain?

Thanks,
Tim

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