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Re: profile - mkpasswd, mkgroup


On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 12:47:47PM +0100, John Morrison wrote:
>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?

I'm not against the idea but I don't really see what it has to do with a
packaged called "profile".

(Which IMO should be renamed to something else, anyway shell-startup,
maybe?)

cgf

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