From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8564 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2008 09:14:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 8549 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jul 2008 09:14:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:13:51 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id B66C86D4354; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:15:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:14:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: base-[files|password] for 1.7 Message-ID: <20080730091513.GH29031@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20080719141841.GN5675@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080722174237.GA25430@calimero.vinschen.de> <5f21cb61c3a7cb7ad2d02df11907792e.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> <20080728152750.GN29031@calimero.vinschen.de> <004401c8f0e3$8cad7700$880410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> <20080729094644.GR29031@calimero.vinschen.de> <00da01c8f188$53ba3e60$880410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> <20080729145417.GD29031@calimero.vinschen.de> <00fe01c8f197$8b70f290$880410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> <017101c8f1c9$7c84fd30$880410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <017101c8f1c9$7c84fd30$880410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00182.txt.bz2 On Jul 29 18:21, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <> > | From: "Corinna Vinschen" <> > || That would have required a decision when to call mkpasswd -d in the > || postinstall script. I don't recall that we ever did that. > | > | I don't recall the specifics but it would have been a lot easier to use > | -d rather than to create a -c . There must have been a good reason. > > I searched the list, there are tons of mails about mkpasswd, most from the > turn of the millennium, AFAICS. Here are two interesting ones: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-10/msg01413.html > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00663.html > The first one may well have been the trigger to have a -c switch. > The second gives you an example of what can happen, and this is not > acceptable under setup. John, scratch it. Back to -l -c. No change to base-passwd. And I really thought that this change would be helpful. Bleah. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat