mkpasswd -d

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-12-18 13:01, Jack Marks wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2019, at 1:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Dec 18 18:54, Jack Marks wrote:
>>> In 1.7.31, I can run mkpasswd -d domainname -p /home -u userid >>
>>> /etc/passwd and it takes less than a second to complete.  In 3.1, it
>>> takes 150 - 180 seconds to complete for the same user.  Is this a bug,
>>> have I misconfigured something or is it something else?

>> Something else I guess:
>> $ time mkpasswd -d blah -p /home -u blub > /dev/null
>> real    0m0.105s
>> user    0m0.015s
>> sys     0m0.062s
>> You're aware that you don't actually need /etc/passwd, right?
>> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping

> Yes; however, we will need continue with the old method.
> Time run against our domain on 3.1 is:
> real    2m19.693s
> user    0m7.578s
> sys     0m0.859s
> Time run on 1.7.31 for the same user against the same domain is:
> real    0m0.741s
> user    0m0.015s
> sys     0m0.030s

Running cygserver at startup loads and caches your domain info across all Cygwin
processes. Try that, retest, and report results.

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