How to make 'mkpasswd -d' a faster process?
Luke Bakken
luke_bakken@yahoo.com
Fri Oct 12 13:57:00 GMT 2001
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.bui@Nextel.com
>
>
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