From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin AD integration home/shell changes
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <118770258.20141203164448@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141203091608.GA26844@calimero.vinschen.de>
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> > Here's what you get:
>>
>> I finally realized, what was tingling me all this time.
>> The implicit fallback mechanics. I'd rather want to have explicit declaration
>> and a failure message in case something isn't right. Much easier to fix system
>> issues, when the system tell you about them.
> The fallback mechanism is pretty much required to have a sane default
> which works for home users without having to change nsswitch.conf at
> all. Also, not everybody will want error messages rather than some sane
> fallback (for any given value of "sane"), while if you don't want a sane
> fallback, you can easily create an unsane fallback to help you maintain
> your solution, e.g.
> db_home: cygwin /invalid/read-only-path
Why not set defaults (in case of db_home) to
db_home: cygwin desc /home/%U
and remove fallback?
It just not seems right - creating workarounds to implement straight behavior.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 03.12.2014, <16:39>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-10 20:52 RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-10 21:18 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-10 21:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 7:30 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-11 0:50 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-11 2:42 ` Andrew DeFaria
2014-11-11 6:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-11 9:15 ` Frank Fesevur
2014-11-11 15:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-11 1:39 ` Jeffrey Altman
2014-11-11 6:19 ` Warren Young
2014-11-11 9:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 10:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 13:52 ` Jeffrey Altman
2014-11-11 16:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 4:26 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-11-11 6:05 ` Warren Young
2014-11-11 6:50 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-11 9:00 ` Marco Atzeri
2014-11-11 6:09 ` Warren Young
2014-11-11 10:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 11:06 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-11 11:14 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 12:48 ` Habermann, David (D)
2014-11-12 16:27 ` Warren Young
2014-11-12 16:31 ` Warren Young
2014-11-12 17:55 ` Habermann, David (D)
2014-11-12 21:28 ` cyg Simple
2014-11-12 21:51 ` Habermann, David (D)
2014-11-13 9:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-12 22:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-11 16:45 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-11 16:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-26 21:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-26 21:29 ` Cygwin AD schema and configuration extensions (was Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory) Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-26 21:56 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-27 9:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-27 14:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-27 19:23 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-27 20:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-28 2:21 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-26 21:58 ` Habermann, David (D)
2014-11-26 23:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-27 16:12 ` RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-27 17:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-28 12:48 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-28 16:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-28 17:04 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-28 18:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-29 9:36 ` Andrey Repin
2014-12-01 17:50 ` cyg Simple
2014-12-02 5:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-12-03 14:05 ` cyg Simple
2014-12-03 20:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-12-04 12:21 ` Linda Walsh
2014-12-04 13:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-02 16:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-28 16:17 ` Andrey Repin
2014-12-03 7:35 ` Cygwin AD integration home/shell changes Andrey Repin
2014-12-03 9:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-03 13:50 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2014-12-04 9:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-05 5:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-12-05 10:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-05 20:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-12-06 10:08 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-04 15:49 ` RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-05 5:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-12-05 10:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-05 21:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-12-06 11:08 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-10 20:52 ` cyg Simple
2014-12-10 22:50 ` Andrey Repin
2014-12-10 23:29 ` David Stacey
2014-11-11 11:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 12:11 ` Bryan Berns
2014-11-11 12:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 15:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-11 16:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-11 20:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-12 10:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-12 20:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-13 9:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-13 21:50 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-14 10:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-17 4:05 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-12 16:45 ` Warren Young
2014-11-13 9:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-13 22:05 ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-14 10:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
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