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: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E4B4@IIS000> From: Bernard Dautrevaux To: "'Corinna Vinschen'" Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 14:31:50 +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: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:19 AM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > > 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. > > It's not harmless. mkpasswd -d will result in an error message on > stand alone systems. Oh yes, I forgot that... By saying "harmless" I just wanted to say that it doesn't break anything, so you can ignore the error message altogether, something I actually do :-) > It's actually the other way around. mkpasswd -l > is harmless on domain members and domain controllers. Yes but it doesn't give th eexpected result... What if we add a "-a" argument (saying generate all possible entries, either local or from the domain), that in fact will just avoid th eerror message and return code that "-d" generates if it can't found a domain controller? Would a patch on these lines be acceptable, as a first step to allow automatic generation of complete /etc/passwd and /etc/group files during cygwin install? > > > 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". > > So you have a solution and it's published in this mailing list. > We could add a FAQ entry. That should be enough, IMHO. A FAQ entry indicating that "ntsec" expects correct and complete passwd/group files is surely useful, although I don't know if it's not alreay present: I discover the cure for my fiel access problems myself quite quickly, before even looking at the FAQ, but maybe I'm not the average user :-) 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/