> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Estey, Debora J > Sent: 30 April 2004 14:43
> Hi, > > I have just down loaded the latest cygwin (1.5.9-1). > I have a script to add users to the password file, the first > time they > bring up cygwin. > The script is using the -p option of the mkpasswd to add > their home to the > passwd file. This > did work fine but, in the latest cygwin, the users id is > added to the end > of the path that was specified. Why did this change? > Our users home directory does not end with their user id. > > thanks If it never used to add the username to the end of the -p option, then how come all your users didn't end up sharing a single home directory, since you can only pass one -p option to mkpasswd but it prints out passwords for the entire user list? Exactly. It did work that way all along, despite what you think. See for yourself - it hasn't changed at all in the last five months -------------->snip!<-------------- http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/utils/mkpasswd.c?cvs root=src Revision 1.33 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Fri Nov 14 19:14:43 2003 UTC (5 months, 2 weeks ago) by corinna Branch: MAIN CVS Tags: cr-0x9e, cr-0x9d, HEAD Changes since 1.32: +5 -5 lines Diff to previous 1.32 (colored) * mkgroup.c: Avoid compiler warnings throughout. * mkpasswd.c: Ditto. * passwd.c: Ditto. -------------->snip!<-------------- There was a change about a year ago (rev 1.30) that updated the usage info for the -p option, but that's all. Look, let me prove it to you: first I get both the latest mkpasswd sources and old ones from before that change: -------------->snip!<-------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /davek/mkpass> wget -O mkpasswd-1.29.c "http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-b in/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/winsup/utils/mkpasswd.c?rev=1.29&content-type=t ext /plain&cvsroot=src" --16:11:43-- http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/src/wi nsup/utils/mkpasswd.c?rev=1.29&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src => `mkpasswd-1.29.c' Resolving sources.redhat.com... 67.72.78.213 Connecting to sources.redhat.com[67.72.78.213]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/plain] [ <=> ] 18,573 26.36K/s 16:11:46 (26.36 KB/s) - `mkpasswd-1.29.c' saved [18573] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /davek/mkpass> wget -O mkpasswd-1.33.c "http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-b in/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/winsup/utils/mkpasswd.c?rev=1.33&content-type=t ext /plain&cvsroot=src" --16:11:54-- http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/src/wi nsup/utils/mkpasswd.c?rev=1.33&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src => `mkpasswd-1.33.c' Resolving sources.redhat.com... 67.72.78.213 Connecting to sources.redhat.com[67.72.78.213]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/plain] [ <=> ] 18,533 14.97K/s 16:11:57 (14.97 KB/s) - `mkpasswd-1.33.c' saved [18533] -------------->snip!<-------------- Next I build them both into executables, run them, and save the output to text files: -------------->snip!<-------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /davek/mkpass> gcc -O0 -g mkpasswd-1.29.c -o mkpasswd-1.29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /davek/mkpass> gcc -O0 -g mkpasswd-1.33.c -o mkpasswd-1.33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /davek/mkpass> ./mkpasswd-1.29 -l -d -p /this/is/a/home/path >output-1. 29.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] /davek/mkpass> ./mkpasswd-1.33 -l -d -p /this/is/a/home/path >output-1. 33.txt -------------->snip!<-------------- Ok, let's compare those files, and see if mkpasswd is generating any different output since this time last year: -------------->snip!<-------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /davek/mkpass> diff output-1.29.txt output-1.33.txt 2a3,10 > ACTUser:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1008:513:Application Center Test Account,U-MACE\A CTUser,S-1-5-21- -------------->snip!<-------------- Wow. There does seem to be a lot of differences. I had to snip them out for security reasons. So you might think that this shows you to be right that mkpasswd has changed. But look again: -------------->snip!<-------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /davek/mkpass> sort <output-1.29.txt > sorted-1.29.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] /davek/mkpass> sort <output-1.33.txt > sorted-1.33.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] /davek/mkpass> diff sorted-1.29.txt sorted-1.33.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] /davek/mkpass> -------------->snip!<-------------- Nothing has changed about the output of mkpasswd -p except the order in which it spits out the lines since this time last year. QED. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
