On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:25:30AM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 09:51 >Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > >> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >> >Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running "mkpasswd >> >-d" in such a case would be useful. >> >> This is just an issue for first time installations, right? AFAICT, >> /etc/passwd should not be produced if there is already a /etc/passwd. >> Ditto /etc/group. >> >> I guess the best solution is to present the user with several options >> >> 1) Create /etc/passwd using local accounts? >> >> 2) Create /etc/passwd using domain accounts? >> >> 3) Create /etc/passwd using local and domain accounts? >> >> 4) Don't create /etc/passwd >> >> Then we have to remember what the user wanted. > >Not necessarily. The existance of /etc/password is already being checked in >setup.exe. So if it exists, the default should be 4; if it doesn't, the >default should be 1 to avoid delays in large domains.
If /etc/passwd doesn't exist then I assume that a user has a reason for that. We want to be nice and not ask them again. We maybe even want to document the way this is stored so that one write to a file and change setup's (or whatever is doing this) default behavior. -- 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/
