From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26020 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2014 06:09:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26011 invoked by uid 89); 11 Nov 2014 06:09:21 -0000 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 Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 06:09:20 +0000 Received: (qmail 15716 invoked by uid 13447); 11 Nov 2014 06:09:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO polypore.west.etr-usa.com) ([68.35.121.157]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES128-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Nov 2014 06:09:18 -0000 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: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 06:09:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <0B8D23F7-0258-472D-BF38-860402FD3CDC@etr-usa.com> References: <20141110205216.GJ2782@calimero.vinschen.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00207.txt.bz2 On Nov 10, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Corinna Vinschen w= rote: > Shall the "db" entries utilize the Windows home folder if it exits(*) > and drop using the unixHomeDirectory? It seems inevitable=85 Use of AD implies some level of security consciousness. The ability to wri= te to c:\cygwin =97 not just during installation, but during all use therea= fter! =97 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 de= fault 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