At 01:02 PM 12/8/2002 -0000, John Morrison wrote: > >Glad you commented at the time this was up for debate...
Sorry, I totally missed that discussion. Better late than never? >Adding the domain users at work is a mear second or so. Those networks >where it is bigger than that, I'm afraid I can't offer any suggestions Earnie Boyd recently suggested -u, which would already go a long way. In addition, -c avoids contacting the PDC. >Why? I never log on locally when running on a network domain... Others do. Also you probably are in the local Users group, but you don't see it. >so add a -c to mkgroup too... That has crossed my mind but I don't know any way to find the primary group name without asking the PDC. >BUT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS! I totally agree :( >The whole idea was so >*anyone* can install cygwin - local OR domain user and get what >they expect. That's exactly why I suggest -c. >I think the -c is not a bad idea. I'll go with the majority >about the domain stuff, but I think it should be there. >Question: >have you a known situation where $USERDOMAIN != hostname and >you weren't logged into a domain? No. But I have only checked on one machine. By the way that test is not needed in the script with -c, because it is then done in a case insensitive manner by mkpasswd itself. Pierre