Hi Igor, >>> Also, as your cygcheck output shows, you are in a domain. It's quite possible that the domain controller really is taking more than 30 minutes to return the set of users and groups (for large domains).
Yes, as you say, I can see the output from tee and it shows that this will take forever (there are 10's of thousands of users in this domain, and after 15 minutes, it resolved 50 or 60 user, ... so this way madness lies). But this raises a question : on a normal install of cygwin, it does not take 14 days to install cygwin, but if the setup program is also generating a mkpasswd -d then it would also take this time. How is setup doing things differently so that it creates /etc/passwd and /etc/group in a few seconds instead of a few weeks ? >>> mkpasswd -d -l | tee /etc/passwd net user nlwiso as far as I know doesn't tell anything about AD group membership etc. but I'm in a lot of groups, it's a massive corporate network, so the mkpasswd is slow ... >>> Perhaps the "local domain" (i.e., the current computer) isn't handled in the same way. yep, that is the case in domains. >>> See <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html>. ok, this is very useful. >>> The commands you quoted will have destroyed your /etc/passwd completely. Try re-running the commands I gave you. >>> Did you run "mkpasswd -c -l", like I told you? yep, do you mean -c or -d here ? I've done both, -d is taking forever to resolve, -c does resolve, but I still get the same incorrect logon when i do -c with mkpasswd and mkgroup. the commands are running, and I see how things should go I think, but i'm still left wondering, how can setup.exe do in 1 minute what mkpasswd -d -l > /etc/passwd is looking to take days or weeks to complete (there seriously are 10's of thousands of users on that emea domain so it would take forever at the speed I was seeing) ? Regards, Roy. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
