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Re: Why does mkpasswd -c use a different offset? Corinna?


> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Houder  wrote:
>> Hi Corinna,
>>
>> I am confused ... the output from mkpasswd -c is NOT the same as the output from mkpasswd -l -u <current user> on
>> both my "Cygwin-32" and my "Cygwin-64".
>>

Hi Mr.? "Simple",

>
> Are you logged into a domain?
>

No, I am not. That is, Seven (my machine at home) does it all by itself ("stand-alone").

> -c would give you the domain user in that case
> -l would give you the local user

... meaning? mkpasswd -c (and mkgroup -c) should not yield any output in my case?

I reread the description of both commands in the User Guide ... it did not help to remove my confusion.

>
> cyg Simple

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