I just wanted to make those concerned aware of some issues I faced while prepping Cygwin for use on a multi-user installation, and some work-arounds that I came up with. Hopefully, these issues could be considered and incorporated into the Cygwin project - resulting in something better than using the work-arounds that I provided.
Please pardon me for not repeating all the details here. Everything is detailed in a personal blog post that I created at http://blogger.ziesemer.com/2012/02/cygwin-multi-user-installation.html. All Cygwin versions are current as of this writing. To summarize: - Cygwin installs all files owned as the installing-user, with no access control entry for the "Administrators" group. This causes issues if multiple users try to use Cygwin, or if one user installs it for another end-user - even if everyone involved is an Administrator (has an account in Windows' Administrators group). (This functionality might make sense if "Just Me" was chosen for the "Install For" option during installation, but this was not the case.) - There should be a way to run mkpasswd and mkgroup automatically - or at least, by customizing the installation to handle this for new users. However, there doesn't seem to be a great way to hook into /etc/profile (where this warning is generated) without editing the script itself and causing it to be skipped in any future updates. Thank you for your time and consideration. -- 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
