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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 13:47:43 -0600
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:56:00AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:39:40AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> > I put a several people's comments inline here.
> 
> I would still make the "Install For" explanation more direct.
> Something like:
> 
> The Install For options of All Users or Just Me should always be
> All Users, except if you do not have write access to 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the registry or the All Users Start Menu, 
> even if you are the only user planning to use Cygwin on the machine.
> Checking the "Just Me" may/will cause daemons such as crond and sshd
> to malfunction.

This is better worded than what I had. 
 
> The next paragraph about ntsec is not particularly relevant at this
> point and is not related to having a "large" domain.  

Isn't there something about a setup.exe, a large domain, and mkpasswd?
I took out that and the ntsec reference and just recommended the archives.

> Nice work, Joshua, thanks.
 
And thanks everyone for the feedback. 

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