On Nov 11 08:51, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > On 11/11/2014 4:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Please keep in mind that I'm talking about the Cygwin home dir not as > > a default value which can be overridden in /etc/passwd, but of a Cygwin > > home dir as returned by Cygwin when fetching the passwd entry from AD, > > and no passwd file exists. This Cygwin home dir should be: > > > > - Make some kind of sense when using a default value. > > > > - Be configurable by the administrators if possible. > > > > That's why I thought it a good idea to utilize unixHomeDirectory. > > Default is /home/$USER, The admins can set it to some other value > > in POSIX notation. > > Using the unixHomeDirectory feels wrong to me because it doesn't provide > a context to indicate where the home directory is located.
That's why I started this discussion in the first place. "It seemed like a good idea at the time", but not so anymore. > Does a default location in the Windows profile make sense and permit > administrators to provide HKCU\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\ registry value to > indicate an alternative location? Or perhaps a per-user environment > variable which would also be distributed via the user's registry hive. I'd prefer an admin-provided /etc/nsswitch.conf setting over registry or environment... :} Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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