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From: Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Invalid arugment and IO Error with bunzip2
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:31:53 +0100
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Actually it looks like the post install scripts for setup attempt to add
domain users but someone forgot to put in some else statements, as I assume
that passwd-grp.sh runs after passwd-grp.bat
i could send in a patch if you like, but my shell scripting sucks. 
Using the %username% or rather $username environment variable you can stop
it from adding everyone in large domains which can take hours.
However as Pierre says there are still many reasons it is hard to do
reliably.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre A. Humblet [mailto:pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org]
Sent: 22 October 2002 19:39
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Invalid arugment and IO Error with bunzip2


On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:15:22PM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> 
> I don't understand it that well myself, but as you pointed out, it is not
> the same thing, but a different thing.   And, the default does not work.
> The -d adds the current user and setup does not.   However, it logs you
> in as the current user, which does not have an entry in the /etc/passwd
file,

Domain users should run mkpasswd and mkgroup with the -d and -l switches
to update /etc/passwd and /etc/group. 
Setup cannot do it reliably for a number of reasons, e.g. it can be run when
the user is logged in locally, or is disconnected from the domain
controller.
In addition it can take a long time. That may be why setup doesn't attempt
it.

> which causes all sorts of things to break.

I am working on making cygwin much more tolerant to imperfect passwd/group
files. This should start showing up in cvs and the snapshots.

Pierre

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