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Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2015 14:34:36 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Jan  7 18:41, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > > but that would produce some rather unwieldy and long paths for certain
> > > users.  So, instead of specifying the users' home directory directly I
> > > would like to mount or auto-mount /home/=E2=89=A4user> to the actual =
(network)
> > > home directory.
> >=20
> > Hmm.  That's tricky.  There's no automatism for that yet.  Nsswitch.conf
> > only describes how to create the passwd entry for a user.  It does not
> > add any mechanism to run at user context switch.  And not everybody
> > would like to have something like that so it needs configuration.
> >=20
> > I'm not opposed to stuff like that if it simplifies admin's job, but on
> > one hand we should evaluate first if there's a way to script that,
> > rather than to hardcode it into the Cygwin DLL, and on the other hand
> > it's not something I'd like to add for the first cut of 1.7.34...
>=20
> I agree that this is not something that belongs into nsswitch.conf, but
> since those mounts are working a bit differently on Cygwin than Linux I'd
> expect that in order to make some auto-mount facility available the DLL
> would need to know about it and provide at least some hooks to set them up
> correctly before any process tries to use them.

Adding a user mount should be scriptable.  The actual home directory
is the next to last entry in the user's `getent passwd' output.  In a
profile script, this entry can be used to generate a user bind mount
from the actual dir to /home/$USER.  Then, set $HOME to /home/$USER.
AFAICS this doesn't require any additional DLL support.

> > > > - When spawning a process under another user account, merge the use=
r's
> > > >   default Windows environment into the new process' environment.
> > >=20
> > > I think this change pulls in additional environment variables with
> > > windows path components when starting programs via cygserver/sshd that
> > > are not a login shell (and perhaps when the user's login shell isn't
> > > bash, so that profile doesn't get run), most notably PATH, TMP and TE=
MP.
> > > If these variables are used later on by programs expecting a POSIX pa=
th
> > > there, then things break.
> >=20
> > Did you try it?  The idea was that these variables are converted to POS=
IX
> > on the way in...
>=20
> They aren't, but even if they were I don't think it's the right thing to =
do
> for some variables.  Slightly edited:

Ok, I see.  So where exactly is the problem?  Variable which already
exist in the env are not overwritten ($PATH).  Variables which only have
a meaning for Windows apps should stay in DOS notation anyway.

So what's left?  TMP/TEMP/TMPDIR?  If that's all, we have two choices,
either convert them, or skip them.

What's better?


Corinna

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