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: <019f01c1c564$bae55e00$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Andrew DeFaria" Cc: References: <20020306162159 DOT 57702 DOT qmail AT web10508 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <3C866767 DOT 7050709 AT DeFaria DOT com> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:14:54 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Mar 2002 23:13:32.0050 (UTC) FILETIME=[887ED720:01C1C564] -- === "Andrew DeFaria" wrote in message news:3C866767 DOT 7050709 AT DeFaria DOT com... > Rick Rankin wrote: > > > Depends on how you define "harmless". We have a *huge* domain, and "mkpasswd > > -d" can take a very long time (20 - 30 minutes) to complete, so I definitely > > wouldn't want to run blindly run it with the -d option here. If it were > > implemented, it should be an option, at least. > > > > When I run mkpasswd here, I generally run it twice, once to get local machine > > accounts, and once with the -d *and* -u options to get a specific user's info > > from the domain. It might be useful with those options. Hmm, maybe I'll take a > > look at that. It would require some fields in the GUI though... > > That's why I lobbied (briefly) for setup to allow the user to specify > their own setup script - a script to be run automatically after Cygwin > setup is done. This way the various administrators could determine and > code their own local customizations as it were. And the setup in beta at the moment sortof-has this capability. Simply add a new mirror site, with a single package in base called "Andrew's master script". It's postinstall script will get run. Rob -- 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/