From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14929 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2014 07:30:19 -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 14913 invoked by uid 89); 11 Nov 2014 07:30:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: plane.gmane.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:30:17 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xo5u1-00065Y-8G for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:30:13 +0100 Received: from 217.10.52.10 ([217.10.52.10]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:30:13 +0100 Received: from Stromeko by 217.10.52.10 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:30:13 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Achim Gratz Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20141110205216.GJ2782@calimero.vinschen.de> <87y4rioiu7.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20141110213938.GL2782@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00212.txt.bz2 Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > This isn't set yet in our domain, but there's another AD just for the > > UNIX accounts (I haven't looked at how that one is structured yet). > > There's talk about maybe unifying these two AD in the future, but I have > > no idea how that would work. > > If you're doing that at one point... > ...it might give you similar trouble as you outline above. As soon as > the RFC 2307 posixAccount/posixGroup scheme is utilized for Unix > machines, Cygwin's usage of unixHomeDirectory would potentially break > your modus operandi... Right, that's why I think that Cygwin should always have the users home in /home/$USER and mount that based on some rule that the administrator can specify. Regards, Achim -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple