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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com>
To: "'Michael A Chase'" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 00:06:53 +0100 
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Is there an easy and fast way to get the count of domain members only?
Setup (or an postinstall script) could then check against a sensible limit
(100 or 1000?) and warn and ask:
"There are 31415 domain members! I'll not load them unless you go to lunch
now..." 8-)

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael A Chase [SMTP:mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 06, 2002 20:26
> To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject:	Re: Suggestion for setup
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> 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.
> --
> Mac :})
> 
	[Heribert]  [snip]


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