Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E4AF@IIS000> From: Bernard Dautrevaux To: "'Robert Collins'" , Stephano Mariani , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:01:22 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au] > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:44 PM > To: Stephano Mariani; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stephano Mariani [mailto:sk DOT mail AT btinternet DOT com] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:29 AM > > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > > Subject: Suggestion for setup > > > > > > Perhaps this is already on the wish list, but it would be > > useful if setup could set the CYGWIN variable up with (at > > least) ntsec on NT/2K/XP, and set correct file permissions > > and ownerships under cygwin for the files it installs. > > It's been suggested, but it isn't currently available. If you wish to > implement it, patches will be considered. On the same ground, it would be nice if, when creating /etc/passwd and /etc/group, setup.exe pass the "-d" flag to mkpasswd/mkgroup; otherwise, ntsec is almost unusable for the (vast majority of) NT/2k/XP users that happen to be in a Windows domain. I don't know what happens if "mkpasswd -d" is used on 9x/Me if not in a domain, but this seems harmless on NT/2k/XP, so always passing -d seems harmless in these cases. In fact for our own use, we package cygwin on the same CD as our own product (with full source of course) and our own install procedure just overwrites (after asking the user) the cygwin-setup generated files by calling mk{passwd,group} with "-d". Sorry for not providing a patch, but it should be fairly straightforward for anybody used to working on setup.exe sources :-) Bernard -------------------------------------------- Bernard Dautrevaux Microprocess Ingenierie 97 bis, rue de Colombes 92400 COURBEVOIE FRANCE Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80 Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85 e-mail: dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com b DOT dautrevaux AT usa DOT net -------------------------------------------- > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/