Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/06/08:44:44
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:19 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> > On the same ground, it would be nice if, when creating
> /etc/passwd and
> > /etc/group, setup.exe pass the "-d" flag to
> mkpasswd/mkgroup; otherwise,
> > ntsec is almost unusable for the (vast majority of)
> NT/2k/XP users that
> > happen to be in a Windows domain.
> >
> > I don't know what happens if "mkpasswd -d" is used on 9x/Me
> if not in a
> > domain, but this seems harmless on NT/2k/XP, so always
> passing -d seems
> > harmless in these cases.
>
> It's not harmless. mkpasswd -d will result in an error message on
> stand alone systems.
Oh yes, I forgot that... By saying "harmless" I just wanted to say that it
doesn't break anything, so you can ignore the error message altogether,
something I actually do :-)
> It's actually the other way around. mkpasswd -l
> is harmless on domain members and domain controllers.
Yes but it doesn't give th eexpected result... What if we add a "-a"
argument (saying generate all possible entries, either local or from the
domain), that in fact will just avoid th eerror message and return code that
"-d" generates if it can't found a domain controller?
Would a patch on these lines be acceptable, as a first step to allow
automatic generation of complete /etc/passwd and /etc/group files during
cygwin install?
>
> > In fact for our own use, we package cygwin on the same CD
> as our own product
> > (with full source of course) and our own install procedure
> just overwrites
> > (after asking the user) the cygwin-setup generated files by calling
> > mk{passwd,group} with "-d".
>
> So you have a solution and it's published in this mailing list.
> We could add a FAQ entry. That should be enough, IMHO.
A FAQ entry indicating that "ntsec" expects correct and complete
passwd/group files is surely useful, although I don't know if it's not
alreay present: I discover the cure for my fiel access problems myself quite
quickly, before even looking at the FAQ, but maybe I'm not the average user
:-)
Bernard
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Bernard Dautrevaux
Microprocess Ingenierie
97 bis, rue de Colombes
92400 COURBEVOIE
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80
Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85
e-mail: dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com
b DOT dautrevaux AT usa DOT net
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