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Re: base-[files|password] for 1.7
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <>
To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:24 PM
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Corinna Vinschen" <>
| To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
| Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:54 AM
| || On Jul 29 10:35, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
|| > From: "Corinna Vinschen"
|| > | I thought it's a good idea to have the domain by default. It's a bit
|| > | strange that a machine is running in a domain but as soon as another
|| > | user logs in, the passwd and possibly group information for this user
|| > | is missing.
|| >
|| > Well yes, I don't recall what the complaints were about.
|| > Perhaps long delays.
|| > But it caused problems to NEW cygwin users installing for the first
|| > time and without visibility or knowledge into what's happening.
||
|| That would have required a decision when to call mkpasswd -d in the
|| postinstall script. I don't recall that we ever did that.
|
| I don't recall the specifics but it would have been a lot easier to use
| -d rather than to create a -c . There must have been a good reason.
I searched the list, there are tons of mails about mkpasswd, most from the
turn of the millennium, AFAICS. Here are two interesting ones:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-10/msg01413.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00663.html
The first one may well have been the trigger to have a -c switch.
The second gives you an example of what can happen, and this is not
acceptable under setup.
Pierre