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 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:01:09 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup Message-ID: <20020306200109.GA17848@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E4B7 AT IIS000> <20020306175108 DOT GA15442 AT redhat DOT com> <018b01c1c546$421db3f0$d700a8c0 AT mchasecompaq> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <018b01c1c546$421db3f0$d700a8c0@mchasecompaq> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:25:30AM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Christopher Faylor" >To: >Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 09:51 >Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > >> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >> >Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running "mkpasswd >> >-d" in such a case would be useful. >> >> This is just an issue for first time installations, right? AFAICT, >> /etc/passwd should not be produced if there is already a /etc/passwd. >> Ditto /etc/group. >> >> I guess the best solution is to present the user with several options >> >> 1) Create /etc/passwd using local accounts? >> >> 2) Create /etc/passwd using domain accounts? >> >> 3) Create /etc/passwd using local and domain accounts? >> >> 4) Don't create /etc/passwd >> >> Then we have to remember what the user wanted. > >Not necessarily. The existance of /etc/password is already being checked in >setup.exe. So if it exists, the default should be 4; if it doesn't, the >default should be 1 to avoid delays in large domains. If /etc/passwd doesn't exist then I assume that a user has a reason for that. We want to be nice and not ask them again. We maybe even want to document the way this is stored so that one write to a file and change setup's (or whatever is doing this) default behavior. -- 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/