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Date:	Fri, 5 Dec 2014 11:13:02 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Dec  5 08:07, 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 d=
eclaration
> >> >> and a failure message in case something isn't right. Much easier to=
 fix 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 maint=
ain
> >> > 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 b=
ehavior.
>=20
> > 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.
>=20
> If you mean "complain and set home to the root", then I'm happy with this
> solution.

No complain.  You still seem to have a problem to understand that this
is underlying functionality under a couple of system calls generating
passwd entries for arbitrary accounts.  It's *not* necessarily the
current account.  A user visible complaint for every unconfigured account
enumerated via getpwent is quite over the top.


Corinna

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