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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>,
   "Stephano Mariani" <sk DOT mail AT btinternet DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:53:00 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>

> 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 :-)

Well, as this is one of the things that are about to move out of
setup.exe, and into install-scripts of one sort or another, the
setup.exe source doesn't really matter :}.

Rob


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