From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17249 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2014 09:40:58 -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 17236 invoked by uid 89); 4 Dec 2014 09:40:57 -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; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:40:56 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 782FD8E12E0; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 10:40:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:40:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin AD integration home/shell changes Message-ID: <20141204094054.GC3810@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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> <946685207.20141203102637@yandex.ru> <20141203091608.GA26844@calimero.vinschen.de> <118770258.20141203164448@yandex.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VQl1xLnQPIyet9qq" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <118770258.20141203164448@yandex.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 --VQl1xLnQPIyet9qq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1454 On Dec 3 16:44, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >=20 > >> > Here's what you get: > >>=20 > >> I finally realized, what was tingling me all this time. > >> The implicit fallback mechanics. I'd rather want to have explicit decl= aration > >> and a failure message in case something isn't right. Much easier to fi= x system > >> issues, when the system tell you about them. >=20 > > The fallback mechanism is pretty much required to have a sane default > > which works for home users without having to change nsswitch.conf at > > all. Also, not everybody will want error messages rather than some sane > > fallback (for any given value of "sane"), while if you don't want a sane > > fallback, you can easily create an unsane fallback to help you maintain > > your solution, e.g. >=20 > > db_home: cygwin /invalid/read-only-path >=20 > Why not set defaults (in case of db_home) to >=20 > db_home: cygwin desc /home/%U >=20 > and remove fallback? > It just not seems right - creating workarounds to implement straight beha= vior. It's not a workaround from my POV to provide a fallback. Creating a workable passwd entry is important. If I implement it as you suggest above, I would still provide the typical "set home to the root dir" default. Sure, that might be an option. Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --VQl1xLnQPIyet9qq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUgCwmAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gOPUP/0AR/ojNNZY/mRI1uEc1AbTN UWc5t0LIFaEhqk1l50OCWG++X9SOO084+T7mMlvOmjOV6BHiKzyT9bfZD/rxAjRs gJnK9SLYKEYnu5F2mKn6jRzKeXs69NKOVoU9gV+YHY0O9X/quE+kVdCf5kzIEJ7M tL+2RXJqwy4f6cfEJhmUM8ptqW5qyJAkPjb0JFh7p3MsSBlq+EZEkwzVW3SPqa5b 5EKUBeSNAM3VnrkRSwi3KxLOq9JF2u2urqK3XoHr57Q5y2zEYpn959YiLsOq+6gs EpRNahp5gtQWvYHJfdiXyIrJ/lHdqt/rE/5/KjXQ8bMcO/pqveZxcTwf8KqKIMRN 53bVZJJW+BUnPae+Rw0GulJ6HrmzaYnuUOftt0qS2PjkDyetgd4XcRlMKm3HzBD5 cnI6MmCpaRy7YW15dvhpZ2o8/azvHXpFrJMVLP+2478wwDGGMHsOGdte4H6Rs5I+ AMxPy04yVS5RfDEp2beq64/5NVUfx1G10TEwWspIa2V0wspilwTKgu6SK1SPoPvT +IwZtd3ikkp0G8Z8B1Uivm65Jf2RJh+nBQv9+uc9Pv9T3SNB4ll9C1xftNk80OYO o1ms9a1CS1sed1xW/JDD8wqrUNdEeAWNOoEbYnHTQSs4PfPe8L9q7UzIqS26/aNH NIHionvR4GBobCnwfMQ8 =lRFR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VQl1xLnQPIyet9qq--