From: James Nord <teilo@cdt.luth.se>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
Cc: KendallB@scitechsoft.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: instalation in other than c:\
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <397DC656.220DA1D1@cdt.luth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200007251651.MAA10616@envy.delorie.com>
DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > BTW, this brings up some points about the installer. Shouldn't the
> > default installation stuff be stored in a global registry setting
> > somewhere instead of the current user setting?
>
> If you check the "all users" option in the root path dialog, it will
> install everything (registry, desktop, start menu) globally. You
> *did* check that box, didn't you?
I could have sworn that I chose the install for all option, although I
could have missed it :-/
However the shortcuts icons are in the "all users" start menu and not
the Administrators.
> I'm not sure what the default should be, but I suspect that the right
> way would auto-detect if you had admin privs and select defaults
> accordingly.
Sounds good.
> > Or perhaps some 'user install' utility should be created to set this
> > up correctly for each user that wishes to use the shared Cygwin
> > installation?
>
> We've thought about that, but better would be to fix mkpasswd so that
> it creates a globally usable password file.
What do you mean by a "globally useable" password file?
The setup created it fine for me and populated it with the correct Users
& UIDs from my system - Hej it even got the home directories ;-)
/James
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-25 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-25 5:17 James Nord
2000-07-25 7:15 ` DJ Delorie
2000-07-25 9:47 ` Kendall Bennett
2000-07-25 9:51 ` DJ Delorie
2000-07-25 9:56 ` James Nord [this message]
2000-07-25 9:57 ` DJ Delorie
2000-07-25 10:03 ` Kendall Bennett
2000-07-25 11:10 ` DJ Delorie
2000-07-25 16:00 ` Kendall Bennett
2000-07-25 16:35 ` DJ Delorie
2000-07-25 19:13 ` Kendall Bennett
2000-07-26 6:45 ` DJ Delorie
2000-07-26 18:20 ` Kendall Bennett
2000-07-25 5:41 Earnie Boyd
2000-07-25 5:57 ` James Nord
2000-07-25 7:17 ` DJ Delorie
2000-07-25 8:04 ` James Nord
2000-07-25 8:22 ` James Nord
2000-07-25 9:43 ` DJ Delorie
2000-07-26 7:45 Andre Bleau
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