From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141110213938.GL2782@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4rioiu7.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
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On Nov 10 22:18, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > - If your account is an AD account, the home directory is taken from the
> > RFC 2307 entry unixHomeDirectory.
>
> This isn't set yet in our domain, but there's another AD just for the
> UNIX accounts (I haven't looked at how that one is structured yet).
> There's talk about maybe unifying these two AD in the future, but I have
> no idea how that would work.
If you're doing that at one point...
> > - Otherwise, if these values are empty or don't exist, your fallback
> > home directory is /home/$USER (without domain prefix).
> >
> > As you may have noticed, there's nothing in there taking the Windows
> > home directory into account. It's indeed not used at all by the new
> > code.
>
> I think that is generally the right idea, since mixing all the .-files
> into the normal Windows home directory results in a mess, especially
> when there are Windows programs ported from Unix that use the same
> scheme for themselves. What I'm doing right now is to create an
> /etc/fstab.d/$USER that mounts a subdirectory of the Windows $HOME
> (always a network drive for normal domain users) when I set up a new
> users' machine or login on a server. I also mount the actual Windows
> home back under ~/winhome.
>
> > Shall the "db" entries utilize the Windows home folder if it exits(*)
> > and drop using the unixHomeDirectory? It seems inevitable...
>
> That would cause serious problems for me I think. Keeping the home
> directory pinned to /home/$USER and automounting this based on some rule
> involving either or both of those entries seems a better idea in the
> long run.
...it might give you similar trouble as you outline above. As soon as
the RFC 2307 posixAccount/posixGroup scheme is utilized for Unix
machines, Cygwin's usage of unixHomeDirectory would potentially break
your modus operandi...
Corinna
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Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-10 20:52 Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-10 21:18 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-10 21:39 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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
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
2014-11-11 10:01 Houder
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