From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8610462468.20141111034508@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141110205216.GJ2782@calimero.vinschen.de>
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> Up to Cygwin 1.7.32, mkpasswd (but not with -u) generated the Cygwin
> home directory by converting the SAM/AD home folder entry to POSIX
> style, if it's non-empty. Fallback is /home/$USER.
> When I implemented the new scheme I thought it a good idea to decouple
> the Cygwin home dir from the Windows home dir. However, in the today's
> discussion the following two arguments came up:
> - If you're using the Windows home folder setting to maintain file
> server based home directories, you typically want that these
> directories are used for Cygwin stuff as well (central administration,
> central backup).
> Having to maintain the home directories twice, once in the
> homeDirectory, once in the unixHomeDirectory entry is quite a hassle,
> especially given that unixHomeDirectory does not support variable
> substitution (e.g. "/home/%USERNAME%" won't work).
> - If you're already using AD as NIS server, unixHomeDirectory is already
> used for UNIX machines. Trying to align the unixHomeDirectory for
> Cygwin to homeDirectory for all the rest of Windows will potentially
> become impossible then.
> These arguments are quite serious and it questions the "good idea" part
> of this change a lot.
> What do you think?
> Shall the "db" entries utilize the Windows home folder if it exits(*)
> and drop using the unixHomeDirectory? It seems inevitable...
All I can say about this issue is… I told you.
I see literally zero reason to maintain separate, cygwin-specific "home"
directory.
If you want a separate environment to play with, VirtualBox is there to
accommodate your wildest dreams. (Though, Oracle is trying hard to turn people
away from using VB since 4.3.13+)
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 11.11.2014, <03:37>
Sorry for my terrible english...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-11 0:50 UTC|newest]
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
2014-11-11 7:30 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-11 0:50 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
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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