From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 679 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2014 05:35:13 -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 670 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2014 05:35:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_BODY_URIBL_PCCC,KAM_FROM_URIBL_PCCC,KAM_THEBAT,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp.ht-systems.ru Received: from smtp.ht-systems.ru (HELO smtp.ht-systems.ru) (78.110.50.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:35:10 +0000 Received: from [91.78.178.160] (helo=darkdragon.lan) by smtp.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) (Authenticated sender: postmaster@rootdir.org) id 1XwlXk-0005Uo-9I ; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:35:04 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:28:50 -0000 Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:35:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <199481337.20141205082850@yandex.ru> To: Corinna Vinschen , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory In-Reply-To: <20141204154911.GH3810@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20141110205216.GJ2782@calimero.vinschen.de> <0B8D23F7-0258-472D-BF38-860402FD3CDC@etr-usa.com> <20141111101821.GO2782@calimero.vinschen.de> <20141111111437.GB28012@calimero.vinschen.de> <20141126205658.GA9157@calimero.vinschen.de> <20141204154911.GH3810@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> On Nov 11 12:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > On Nov 11 11:05, Achim Gratz wrote: >> > > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: >> > > > 1. Add a setting to /etc/nsswitch.conf which allows to specify one of >> > > > the above: >> > > > >> > > > home: [unix|win|home]... >> > > > >> > > > - "unix" means, set pw_dir to unixHomeDirectory >> > > > - "win" means, set pw_dir to homeDirectory >> > > > - "home" means, set pw_dir to /home/$USER >> > > > - Multiple entries are possible. >> > > > - Default in the absence of this setting is: always set pw_dir to >> > > > /home/$USER. >> > > >> > > Looks good, but maybe allow the AD attribute to be explicitly named (e.g. >> > > cygwinHomeDirectory). >> > >> > Cygwin schema extension? :) >> >> I just created a patch and a matching snapshot on >> https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ >> >> The new stuff is still missing documentation, [...] > If you're wondering why I didn't create a test release yet, it's all > about this dreaded documentation. > Did I mention already how much I hate writing documentation? Yes? > Whatever. I really hate writing documentation! It's infinitely worse > than writing the code. Every 10 lines of documentation I write for my projects make me want to rewrite at least one line of the code. Because it feels stupid now, that I've explained, how it works. > I'm just working on the documentation and it's going forward really > tenaciously, so I felt the need to vent^Wkeep you informed. > When I have a more or less working piece of documentation, I'll create > a new Cygwin test release again, for installation via setup. > I'd appreciate if those not shy to install developer snapshots would > give this stuff a try in the meantime. I think I'm about to make a script to install snapshots, at this rate it seems the right thing to do. Is there a direct way to query for the latest snapshot? I'm not very fond of HTML parsing. > Also, if you don't understand the settings, or some of the settings, > feel free to ask. The developer (that's me, I guess) sometimes just > doesn't know if the description makes sense or not. It will very likely > help to make the documentation better. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 05.12.2014, <08:16> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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