On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:17:21PM -0500, Peter Buckley wrote: > Hmm... I thought that when cygwin was installed, it did "mkpasswd -l >> > /etc/passwd", so there was at least something in /etc/passwd. Do you in > fact have a file in c:\cygwin\bin named mkpasswd.exe? > > It actually should just sit there for a long time when you do "mkpasswd > -d >> /etc/passwd". It is adding all the users from the NT domain to the > passwd file. You can do a "mkpasswd -d | grep bgoldstein >> > /etc/passwd", that will take the same amount of time but only put your > username in the passwd file (where bgoldstein is your username).
Urgh, I'd suggest using the -u option instead... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
