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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:26:48 -0600
From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
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On 2014-11-10 14:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> When I implemented the new scheme I thought it a good idea to decouple
> the Cygwin home dir from the Windows home dir.  However, in the today's
> discussion the following two arguments came up:
>
> - If you're using the Windows home folder setting to maintain file
>    server based home directories, you typically want that these
>    directories are used for Cygwin stuff as well (central administration,
>    central backup).
>    Having to maintain the home directories twice, once in the
>    homeDirectory, once in the unixHomeDirectory entry is quite a hassle,
>    especially given that unixHomeDirectory does not support variable
>    substitution (e.g. "/home/%USERNAME%" won't work).
>
> - If you're already using AD as NIS server, unixHomeDirectory is already
>    used for UNIX machines.  Trying to align the unixHomeDirectory for
>    Cygwin to homeDirectory for all the rest of Windows will potentially
>    become impossible then.
>
> These arguments are quite serious and it questions the "good idea" part
> of this change a lot.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Shall the "db" entries utilize the Windows home folder if it exits(*)
> and drop using the unixHomeDirectory?  It seems inevitable...

If one uses the same program, one native Windows and one Cygwin, they 
would then potentially cause conflicting/incompatible config dot-files 
in the same directory (line endings, path conventions, etc.).


Yaakov


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