On Jul 30 11:15, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 7/30/2014 6:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> I have not been actively watching this thread but if I'm correct we're
> adding NIS like capabilities to Cygwin so that /etc/passwd can easily be
> filled with say everybody in the domain? If so then bravo!
> 
> I also take it that it's not ready yet either.

It's ready for a given value of ready.  I'm just looking for certain
details which needs to be clarified before the stuff can be released.

> When it is, how would I
> install it?

The existing code is in almost all developer snapshots of the last few
months.  Just try the last one from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and
read my preliminary documentation attached to this mail again (and
which, incidentally, is now in the offical docs in the repo as well).


> >So I'd like to ask a few questions to which I'd like to have some brief
> >answers, kind of like a poll, to get a better idea how we should
> >proceed:
> >
> >1. Shall we remove the leading '+' from the builtin account names
> >    or shall we keep it?
> >
> >2. Shall we stick to '+' as the separator char or choose another one?
> >    If so, which one?
> 
> How about "@"?

Dunno.  It *might* be a good alternative to '+'.  Personally I just
dislike that a '@' is a less "light" character and it might give a wrong
idea.  Email:  name AT domain.  Cygwin account:  domain AT name.

> >3. Shall we keep the `db_prefix' variability or choose one of
> >    the prefixing methods and stick to it?  If so, which one, auto,
> >    primary, or always?
> >
> >Bonus question:
> >
> >4. Should Cygwin downcase all usernames when generating the Cygwin
> >    username, so, if your Windows username is 'Ralph', your Cygwin
> >    username will be 'ralph'?
> 
> I say downshift them!


Corinna

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