Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001205185438.00a78eb0@pop.bresnanlink.net> X-Sender: cabbey@pop.bresnanlink.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:05:38 -0600 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Chris Abbey Subject: Re: Problem with ssh-keygen.exe. In-Reply-To: <3A2D8DF2.26FE2994@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 01:53 12/6/00 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Mo DeJong wrote: > > Does anyone else think that "" is a strange default home > > dir to assign in the event no NT home dir has been set? yes, especially given the current /etc/profile habit of assuming /home/$USER, and *creating* it if it doesn't exist. > > I would think that "/home/$USER" would be a much > > better fallback, why don't we add that to mkpasswd? ok, done. >Sure. Feel free and submit a patch. /home/$USER is a good choice IMO. >What's about that: Using /home/$USER as default and add a new option >to mkpasswd: > > -h /foo/bar > >which is then used as dir prefix instead of /home. > >Corinna hmm... good idea. I've got the above idea from Mo already done, I was actually just about to post it when this note came in... guesss I need to go figure out the options handling now.... patch forthcoming, if I can finish it before Dune pt 3 starts. ;> I do see that -h is already taken... for the obvious. How does -p strike you? On a slightly unrelated topic, what's the preferred cygwin indenting strategy? half the lines in this file have tabs in them, which for me anyway are NOT 8 characters... makes a real mess out of the file. now the forces of openness have a powerful and unexpected new ally http://ibm.com/linux/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com