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From: jason DOT stott AT barclays DOT com
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Using Cygwin in a Multi-User Environment without Administrative A ccess
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:51:24 +0100
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Hello,

We are hoping to make Cygwin available to standard users of our multi-user
Citrix server environment. 

One thing that we've noticed is that non-administrative users are prompted
each time with the following prompt after running bash (even after running
the commands):

Your group is currently "mkpasswd".  This indicates that
the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group
Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.

We have also noticed that the profile function isn't saving files in the
C:\cygwin\home\Jason.Stott_adm under a non-privileged user the same way that
it is for a user with administrative access. 

Is anyone running Cygwin in a multi-user Citrix environment with user only
privileges successfully and if so are there any clues that you could provide
for the above issues?

Thank you in advance.

Jason Stott
  

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