=== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On the same ground, it would be nice if, when creating /etc/passwd and > /etc/group, setup.exe pass the "-d" flag to mkpasswd/mkgroup; otherwise, > ntsec is almost unusable for the (vast majority of) NT/2k/XP users that > happen to be in a Windows domain. > > I don't know what happens if "mkpasswd -d" is used on 9x/Me if not in a > domain, but this seems harmless on NT/2k/XP, so always passing -d seems > harmless in these cases. > > In fact for our own use, we package cygwin on the same CD as our own product > (with full source of course) and our own install procedure just overwrites > (after asking the user) the cygwin-setup generated files by calling > mk{passwd,group} with "-d". > > Sorry for not providing a patch, but it should be fairly straightforward for > anybody used to working on setup.exe sources :-) Well, as this is one of the things that are about to move out of setup.exe, and into install-scripts of one sort or another, the setup.exe source doesn't really matter :}. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/