RE: passwd-group post install scripts

["Harig, Mark A." <maharig at idirect dot net>]

There was a discussion about the ordering of '-u <user> -d <domain>'
options to 'mkpasswd' back around August 13-16.  You may want to
review them.

>On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Igor wrote:
>> It may be that the order of arguments matters, and that the correct
way to
>>  specify the username and the domain would be
>> 	mkpasswd -u MY_USER_ID -d MY_DOMAIN >> /etc/passwd
>> but the point remains the same.
>
>You're right, Igor.  I'd already tried the -u switch and seen that
>it didn't appear to work; I'd not thought of the possibility that
>the mkpasswd code was sensitive to the order of the command-line
>switches!
>The answer pops out in under a second using -u before -d.  Perfect.
>
>Rick.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:01 PM
> To: Vince Hoffman; 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: passwd-group post install scripts
> 
> 
> doh and heres the bat file 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com]
> > Sent: 24 October 2002 16:59
> > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> > Subject: passwd-group post install scripts
> > 
> > 
> > Since there has been a few questions from people not having 
> > their domain
> > account automatically added to /etc/passwd I re-wrote 
> > passwd-grp.bat to do
> > this, although as yet only it has only been tested on NT/2k/95/98. 
> > Would this be a wanted change ? 
> > Would it be a better idea to send a patch for passwd-grp.sh 
> > as at the moment
> > this does nothing or is overwritten depending when it is run. 
> > (on 98 the .sh
> > ran before the .bat and so the created /etc/passwd was 
> > overwritten, on 2000
> > the .bat ran first so the .sh didn't do anything.)
> > Also I haven't found a good way of only adding domain groups 
> > the user is a
> > member of (windows find is a very crippled grep) so I left it 
> > at all Domain
> > groups (users, admins, computers etc) which isn't very 
> satisfactory.)
> > anyway,
> > Comments/laughter/derision welcome.
> > 
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