> From: Marc Girod > > I started a 'mkpasswd -d -l > passwd.ld' process last Friday > around 15:30, and this one completed today (Wednesday) at 8:42. > The size of the file produced is 3 MB, or 20142 lines.
I ran into similar problems with "mkpasswd" taking a long time on a large Active Directory (AD) domain. I worked around the issue using the following procedure: 1. Use "mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd" to just add your machine's local user accounts and your personal AD user account to Cygwin's "/etc/passwd". 2. If you need to add additional domain users you can use "mkpasswd -d -u user_name >> /etc/passwd ". Likewise you can use "mkgroup -l -c > /etc/group" to add your local groups and your personal AD group to "/etc/group", and "mkgroup -d -g group_name >> /etc/group" to add individual AD domain groups. Run "man mkpasswd" and "man mkgroup", or see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd and http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup for more details. -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. -- 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/
