On 04/29/2010 09:46 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
I'm just curious - I have a function that I use on Unix to do
basically a ypcat passwd | grep -i $...@. It's very useful in looking up
users especially since ore and more corporations use anonymous
numbers or IDs to represent people. But I have to log into the Unix
system to do it.
Are similar/identical IDs created for those users in the Windows
domain? If so, you can use mkpasswd in place of ypcat passwd to get
something
roughly equivalent.
Now that's an idea! You got me thinking. I'm really just using this
function as a quick look up of info so that I can quickly say "Well this
user id, d23834 is really John Smith" or "Well Smith's user id is
d23834". mkpasswd might do that for me! (I know also that I could script
up calls to net user but it's not as straight forward).
I was wondering if there was a cygwin port of NIS or YP so that I
could do this ypcat from within Cygwin.
I haven't heard of this being available, and a search doesn't turn up
ypcat in any Cygwin package. However, someone apparently ported the
Linux tools to Cygwin at one time:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00144.html
Too bad the message didn't include any instructions and only refers to
a website which appears to be dead now.
Ugh. Well mkpasswd might suffice... Thanks.
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