From: Norton Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.925)
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 11:37:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6a981bd-9021-246f-095e-fa5df57270a6@huarp.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <announce.a2975a1e-893b-27c2-cafb-891f1b5a5749@dronecode.org.uk>
On 3/5/2023 9:00 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
> - Various fixes around "All Users/"Just For Me" (thanks to Christian
> Franke for investigating these problems):
>
> -- Fix a long-standing bug (since 2012), where installed files are
> owned by the user's primary group, rather than the Adminstrators
> group, when installing for "All Users".
> -- We no longer change group back to the user's primary group while
> running postinstall scripts, when installing for "All Users". This was
> only for the benefit of mkgroup/mkpasswd being run by the postinstall
> script, which we don't do any more.
> -- Fix "Just For Me" being ignored, when run with Admininstrator
> privileges
> -- Fix "All Users" being selectable but basically ineffectual, when
> not run with Admininstrator privileges
Cool! I've just been dealing with multi-user installations for the first
time in a serious way and encountered some of these issues. Nice to have
a fix without even asking!
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2023-03-05 14:00 Jon Turney
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