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profile - mkpasswd, mkgroup
- From: "John Morrison" <john dot r dot morrison at ntlworld dot com>
- To: "Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:47:47 +0100
- Subject: profile - mkpasswd, mkgroup
Hi all.
One of the first things I almost always have to do upon
installing cygwin on a machine at work is generate the
groups and passwords for the domain.
What I'm proposing to do is remove the creation of the
batch program from setup (with, I think Rob's blessing :)
and add it to the profile package.
Then, after changing it to a shell script (are there
any issues with this?) doing something along the lines
of (peudo-code):
----------------------------------------
if $USERDOMAIN == `hostname` ; then
# running locally
/bin/mkgroup -l > /etc/group
/bin/mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
else
# running as part of a domain
/bin/mkgroup -d > /etc/group
/bin/mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd
fi
----------------------------------------
Only problem I can see is I don't know whether
the variable USERDOMAIN is NT specific. There
may be other issues also (I can only test on
w2k).
Thoughts?
J.
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