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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:18:21 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
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On Nov 10 23:09, Warren Young wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>=
 wrote:
>=20
> > Shall the "db" entries utilize the Windows home folder if it exits(*)
> > and drop using the unixHomeDirectory?  It seems inevitable=E2=80=A6
>=20
> Use of AD implies some level of security consciousness.  The ability to w=
rite to c:\cygwin =E2=80=94 not just during installation, but during all us=
e thereafter! =E2=80=94 comes out of a world where every user is a local Ad=
ministrator.
>=20
> This answer I wrote on Stack Overflow is one way to solve the problem tod=
ay:
>=20
>     http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26666180/
>=20
> It might not be a bad idea if Cygwin started doing this sort of thing by =
default in the future.  (Obviously for new installs only.)

What I gather from the replies so far is this:

- Nobody really cares for unixHomeDirectory.

- Some want to use the Windows home folder.

- Some want Cygwin to utilize the HOMEPATH dir.

- Some want Cygwin to use always it's own /home and do everything else
  via symlinks or mount points.

The problem so far is that I'm not sure it's clear to everybody what
I mean.  I'm *not* talking about a default value which can easily be
overridden by tweaking /etc/passwd.  I'm talking about what the passwd
entry contains if there's no passwd file, and the admins want to keep
the administration strictly inside AD.  The passwd entry gets generated
from what AD provides.  And here we need a sensible default behaviour.

One possible, but not naturally useful default behaviour is what
the current code does:

1. Utilize the unixHomeDirectory AD attribute.
2. If unixHomeDirectory is empty, fall back to /home/$USER.

Another possible behaviour:

1. Utilize the homeDirectory AD attribute (aka %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%).
2. If homeDirectory is empty, fall back to /home/$USER.

Another:

1. Always use /home/$USER and let the admins come up with a matching
   mount point scheme.

Another:

1. Add a setting to /etc/nsswitch.conf which allows to specify one of
  the above:

    home: [unix|win|home]...

   - "unix" means, set pw_dir to unixHomeDirectory
   - "win" means, set pw_dir to homeDirectory
   - "home" means, set pw_dir to /home/$USER
   - Multiple entries are possible.
   - Default in the absence of this setting is: always set pw_dir to
     /home/$USER.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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