X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :references:to; q=dns; s=default; b=l9R+cRwo3Yf8sLjMvk7QCwtKGWPh I7sse8vTifzRVKvwqDYZlTVonoZ/yN4h4INba7dFERN8qgEXfll8bUxG7aD4wz/7 VSiqfSUl+SFESO0Nxi8A7qniHkMGT/4x07/+8KU/X52CLxsH95cY6kcPcISzevCs 573NDhqlooLKxCw= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :references:to; s=default; bh=adIbWTDijY5vmqR74IoxIR4XCBM=; b=Vg 6rK+e7V3+Fh4ekehTkqH0qoGkitkNMvXpV38A8d5IurPb/ZBKOnqs9WuMmiDMLTM nz+/VPNJt9bQ/fGb0QVKNB70VrQIb+p5HQ6iJuKlSlzBt9iuznSbF6eDPefkH2ce RYdNFsPXnCJaNA6cp2QKsODPOMjQ6QdeIEEqJYIrI= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,UNSUBSCRIBE_BODY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory From: Warren Young In-Reply-To: <20141110205216.GJ2782@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:09:39 -0700 Message-Id: <0B8D23F7-0258-472D-BF38-860402FD3CDC@etr-usa.com> References: <20141110205216 DOT GJ2782 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id sAB69VxD029360 On Nov 10, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Shall the "db" entries utilize the Windows home folder if it exits(*) > and drop using the unixHomeDirectory? It seems inevitable… Use of AD implies some level of security consciousness. The ability to write to c:\cygwin — not just during installation, but during all use thereafter! — comes out of a world where every user is a local Administrator. This answer I wrote on Stack Overflow is one way to solve the problem today: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26666180/ It might not be a bad idea if Cygwin started doing this sort of thing by default in the future. (Obviously for new installs only.) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple