From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28546 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2014 16:19:21 -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 28535 invoked by uid 89); 11 Nov 2014 16:19:21 -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; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:19:19 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9B6848E12EE; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:19:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:19:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory Message-ID: <20141111161917.GT2782@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20141110205216.GJ2782@calimero.vinschen.de> <54616884.7010407@secure-endpoints.com> <20141111095956.GN2782@calimero.vinschen.de> <54621463.7070208@secure-endpoints.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lpUp1egui7PDlNtH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54621463.7070208@secure-endpoints.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00236.txt.bz2 --lpUp1egui7PDlNtH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1472 On Nov 11 08:51, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > On 11/11/2014 4:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Please keep in mind that I'm talking about the Cygwin home dir not as > > a default value which can be overridden in /etc/passwd, but of a Cygwin > > home dir as returned by Cygwin when fetching the passwd entry from AD, > > and no passwd file exists. This Cygwin home dir should be: > >=20 > > - Make some kind of sense when using a default value. > >=20 > > - Be configurable by the administrators if possible. > >=20 > > That's why I thought it a good idea to utilize unixHomeDirectory. > > Default is /home/$USER, The admins can set it to some other value > > in POSIX notation. >=20 > Using the unixHomeDirectory feels wrong to me because it doesn't provide > a context to indicate where the home directory is located. That's why I started this discussion in the first place. "It seemed like a good idea at the time", but not so anymore. > Does a default location in the Windows profile make sense and permit > administrators to provide HKCU\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\ registry value to > indicate an alternative location? Or perhaps a per-user environment > variable which would also be distributed via the user's registry hive. I'd prefer an admin-provided /etc/nsswitch.conf setting over registry or environment... :} Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --lpUp1egui7PDlNtH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUYjcFAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+g+cAQAJrLiGk8UaOoM82+446vDtX5 craPJ1ZN2G58pxdx9+OWkJtiuXqJsSz+bRKz+fmV8mxU5ooANvycfiOHOFFM1jf3 r77svgHZhwbWGLm7uHcHW7EZdFXOfC5SomUDYI23Z3UPiXrW+vxsnp33SaMKvbi8 QcZM/FG0BgDECctGOu0q8+Of/6SCHmnjSdeQ3I+6ETtxG3CApqm2PLLyqgeJBVQJ naaeDtO5l6ZgjjNe9GcUy75G7F/HjYSSAFxPVPbn+FwY5rurSZd0e/LuCUjUJ1qv 1BTgCdfDTmB1mLC2aXkIglLI/y2ehG1PS+L3O+StuDrGSy86F7QOqr+JPp7GzgVU +nxxD8DdAKEReoa9NqdKBCg9sueHfs8k/Fey/tAE8huACpVRRUnQZWPFOiDlppXh we4v2lOZPhmYuYwT+oHIKQFh99hmM/NmyPknVvqIOCW0L8lWALjBXsbU2/RzcrnC +0k8RLInYFP5frS1rK0YaxuhiA1lu62opiJBfacBjSQaV1sWEbEs36PC9628aKx0 tlYZiRlGR4jp3NTdHHI4ZR1oRJ+R4k7Tz7OyizdeRkJs2PW9txgReF6a1rCCihU4 67jfFEyHoUqxr20td7vgnVehNGaev2Z9UKwaHtXYP96FGpnOG0m7o+H2XUSAT28W WQ7eYEnGFadsz0l/Jk9+ =zQpi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lpUp1egui7PDlNtH--