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Date:	Thu, 4 Dec 2014 10:40:54 +0100
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On Dec  3 16:44, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>=20
> >> > Here's what you get:
> >>=20
> >> I finally realized, what was tingling me all this time.
> >> The implicit fallback mechanics. I'd rather want to have explicit decl=
aration
> >> and a failure message in case something isn't right. Much easier to fi=
x system
> >> issues, when the system tell you about them.
>=20
> > The fallback mechanism is pretty much required to have a sane default
> > which works for home users without having to change nsswitch.conf at
> > all.  Also, not everybody will want error messages rather than some sane
> > fallback (for any given value of "sane"), while if you don't want a sane
> > fallback, you can easily create an unsane fallback to help you maintain
> > your solution, e.g.
>=20
> >   db_home: cygwin /invalid/read-only-path
>=20
> Why not set defaults (in case of db_home) to
>=20
> db_home: cygwin desc /home/%U
>=20
> and remove fallback?
> It just not seems right - creating workarounds to implement straight beha=
vior.

It's not a workaround from my POV to provide a fallback.  Creating a
workable passwd entry is important.  If I implement it as you suggest
above, I would still provide the typical "set home to the root dir"
default.  Sure, that might be an option.


Corinna

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