On Jan 13 12:02, Achim Gratz wrote: > [using the 20150113 snapshot already] > > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > The leading slash is in integral part of the "path" scheme, The above > > is not recognized as valid entry at all. > > It doesn't work differently now that I've added the slash, though. To solve > the problems with the server one must re-start both cygserver and sshd after > changing the configuration. I think it's only cygserver, though, so is > there a signal that one can send to have it invalidate the cache and re-load > the configuration like some daemons on UN*X do?
No. How often do you change such a central setting as the db_home
setting for all users?
> In any case, the code seems to prefer the mapped drives. I don't know how
> it arrives there, an AD user having a mapped home / roaming profile has the
> UNC path available as the homedirectory attribute and the drive latter to
> map to is the homedrive attribute. These two attributes are missing from
> accounts that only have local user profiles.
I thought it's clear how Cygwin does it. Here it is:
Is homeDrive non-empty?
If yes, convert to POSIX and use as $HOME.
If not, is homeDirectory non-empty?
If yes, convert to POSIX and use as $HOME.
If no, ask the local computer for the user's profile directory.
If it has one, convert to POSIX and use as home dir
If not, fallback to /home/$USER.
> This is problematic for two reasons: it brings in the standard posix=0 mount
> option via the cygdrive prefix
...which you can change in /etc/fstab.
> and when trying to log in via SSH onto a
> server the drive mapping is not established unless that user has a desktop
> session open on the server.
Right, but there's nothing Cygwin can do about it. It means, you can't
use this db_home setting if you use ssh sessions, or you use password
authentication (real, or via passwd -R) and mount the drive in a profile.
Btw., what about my TMP/TEMP question?
Corinna
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