From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15428 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2014 18:40:13 -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 15414 invoked by uid 89); 30 Jul 2014 18:40:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:40:12 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id BDAE68E05FF; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:40:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:40:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Simplify AD integration? Message-ID: <20140730184009.GS25860@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20140730134716.GM25860@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TXIPBuAs4GDcsx9K" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00356.txt.bz2 --TXIPBuAs4GDcsx9K Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1953 On Jul 30 11:15, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 7/30/2014 6:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >=20 > 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! >=20 > 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? >=20 > 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'? >=20 > I say downshift them! Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --TXIPBuAs4GDcsx9K Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT2TwJAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+g7pgP/AsSjtwTdAPkMbxJU3H/+Abq Z+w/jSckGZsWaZ6ZUnCP64wy9bCeX8ECWs3lEOgDBFUl4GGZU7vAKkPlkVrQn4lC 02Y0K3DeeOlyaJEJosmNkU14PePJHqt/kHEW1BwiuHzFSaa9paUePma43fld/RWy i+jVlsJfJGj1bJtKbUqHN9lnxyX1czmySKiFNujhNBrpOaq/zvXJTmYD1JMJ4lxx /CeTBpaTVrckNlkPMSS6jRr9iQ1nom/9+aswoxrnD8elvM4S65SW9LYF/2WAjux6 9/G4qcZB45EoxMiX19/TVKuGPs4K9Kohe4LD2vnZPY1LnTHgxZLSarWDuv2Lg1b+ RYr31l0G4084CyorUEeiXQK/dPzWfgQ5vLGwQBgOIU+zBNfO4P/rX+1EhDjcIXrf VcgE55Mcw4ay5Tb9O5aiEI30v+aukLTEZ/KvGC9Kx82eZvPsjKx/5AeErX2CAxip 1zqqtZwJXshIrkU4AhXrg3KlsfCE+hLJriwOSYDxZQUYuZw768HQA9+2ufUrpK9b fhSJrLJAjMBA/tyUD985TqT0AVoyh0ra+Faq7j4UgYQZWnQsz+NfkKYDKZzXBpLC KHho5ly2xBrHUXgW0oZh4wfPP207HGwlV3U7H6s9mrZwp/dC4mEASYVYzWV+BYkH RgEcoad7uaFzPiHuO5Ur =QdHn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TXIPBuAs4GDcsx9K--