> -Original Message-
> From: Andrew DeFaria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I'm not saying that if one wants /etc/passwd updated one sure run
> Cygwin's setup.exe. What I'm saying is that Cygwin's setup.exe should
> not break the /etc/passwd in place already. My experiences says that
Hi,
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
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From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Michael A Chase'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Andrew DeFaria"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 07,
> -Original Message-
> From: Michael A Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:46 PM
> To: Andrew DeFaria; cygwin
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Andrew DeFaria&q
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From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Andrew DeFaria"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 19:09
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From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:35:07PM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote:
> >It wouldn't
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:35:07PM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote:
>It wouldn't be very hard to add /etc/passwd.lnk and /etc/group.lnk to
>the test in desktop.cc. Would you accept it? I'm a bit hesitant
>because there are lots of other files and directories that might also
>be affected.
Personall
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From: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Robert,
>It wouldn't be very hard to add /etc/passwd.lnk and /etc/group.lnk
to the
> test in desktop.cc. Would you accept it? I'm a bit hesitant because
there
> are lots of other files and directories that might
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From: "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 16:29
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
> Michael A Chase wrote:
>
> > The test has been in the code for
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From: "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 13:46
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
> Michael A Chase wrote:
>
> > I recently messed with the functio
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> Rick Rankin wrote:
>
> > Depends on how you define "harmless". We have a *huge* domain, and
"mkpasswd
> > -d" can take a very long time (20 - 30 minutes) to complete, so I
definitely
> > w
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From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Depends on how you define "harmless". We have a *huge*
> > domain, and "mkpasswd
> > -d" can take a very long time (20 - 30 minutes) to complete,
> > so I definitely
> > wouldn't want to run blindly run it with the -d
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> -Original Message-
> From: Michael A Chase [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 20:26
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> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
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> - Original Message -
> From: "Christopher Faylor&
Michael A Chase wrote:
> I recently messed with the function that does that, so I can confirm that it
> only runs mkpasswd and mkgroup if the corresponding files don't exist.
When did this come about? Because every time I reinstall Cygwin it does
indeed run mkpasswd -l. I wonder, since our /etc
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> The code in setup.exe seems to indicate that mkpasswd and mkgroup will
> not be run if the corresponding files already exist. I was asking if
> people were actually seeing this happen after a first-time install.
I see mkpass -l run each and every time Cygwin is inst
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:25:30AM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote:
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>From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 09:51
>Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
>
>
I've never seen setup run mkpasswd or mkgroup when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
exist, so I believe you're right, Chris, in saying that this is just a first
time setup issue. Personally, I just didn't want to see a first time user
around here get stuck with a 30 minute install process because setup b
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From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:25
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor
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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
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>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
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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/
Rick Rankin wrote:
> Depends on how you define "harmless". We have a *huge* domain, and "mkpasswd
> -d" can take a very long time (20 - 30 minutes) to complete, so I definitely
> wouldn't want to run blindly run it with the -d option here. If it were
> implemented, it should be an option, at leas
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:52:20AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>It's not harmless. mkpasswd -d will result in an error message on
>>stand alone systems.
>
>Seems to me that mkpasswd could be made smart enough to try -d and if
>an error is returned issue a warning that i
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> It's not harmless. mkpasswd -d will result in an error message on
> stand alone systems.
Seems to me that mkpasswd could be made smart enough to try -d and if an
error is returned issue a warning that it's switching to -l mode.
> It's actually the other way around
At 12:29 PM 3/6/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corin
> -Original Message-
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK
> Partners, Inc
> -Original Message-
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
>
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 a
> -Original Message-
> From: Rick Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:22 PM
> To: Bernard Dautrevaux; 'Robert Collins'; Stephano Mariani;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
>
>
>
> --- Bern
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > >On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:
> -Original Message-
> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:03 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
> > On Wed, Ma
At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> > >> As this is quite a simple patch, I proc
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> >> As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and
> >> mkpasswd.c
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
>> As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and
>> mkpasswd.c:
>
>I have two problems with this patch:
>
>- No ChangeLog entry.
>-
--- Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > -Original Message-
> 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 use
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and
> mkpasswd.c:
I have two problems with this patch:
- No ChangeLog entry.
- Do we have a signed copyright assignment from you?
Corinna
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> -Original Message-
> From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:32 PM
> To: 'Corinna Vinschen'
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
>
>
> > -Original Message-
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> -Original Message-
> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:19 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> > O
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> 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
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From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Nice to hear, so the patch could be simply to add the proper "-d" arg
in the
> mkpasswd/mkgroup call in the yet-to-be-written install-script; sorry,
but I
> can't do this either :-) :) :)
Lol! Yes, well if I writ
> -Original Message-
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:53 AM
> To: Bernard Dautrevaux; Stephano Mariani; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
>
> >
> > Sorry for not providing a
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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
> -Original Message-
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:44 PM
> To: Stephano Mariani; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
>
>
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: St
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephano Mariani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Suggestion for setup
>
>
> Perhaps this is already on the wish list, but it would be
> useful if setup could set the CYGWIN variable u
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