mkpasswd takes 18 hours to finish!

[rotaiv]

At 9/13/2002  02:54 PM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>Yes, but the original poster's problem was that his username was not in
>the default domain.  Thus, your solution won't work.

You are correct - missed that point.  Sorry.

>This is not true.
>
>Specifying both the username and the domain name results in extracting
>just that one user from the domain (as can be plainly seen from the source
>of mkpasswd.c).
>
>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.

Once again, correct if you use the second syntax.  For some reason, putting 
the -d before -u causes to list all users whereas putting -u before -d only 
lists the single user.  I fail to see why the order of the switches should 
be import but apparently it is.

>The last point is true, but, as far as I could see, was not disputed by
>anyone.

Only reason I brought this up is because the original poster highlighted 
the fact it took 18 hours so time was a consideration.  By enumerating all 
users then using grep, it would still take the same amount of 
time.  Clearly, if you only want a single user, the '-u -d' combination is 
the most efficient.

Regards,

rotaiv.



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