Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-30 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
This is in reply to Christopher Faylor's post http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01430.html With this in mind I will like you to consider publishing in the Cygwin FAQ the guidlines one should use for distributing an (open source) application outside the official net release. I believe

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:50:28AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: This is in reply to Christopher Faylor's post http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01430.html With this in mind I will like you to consider publishing in the Cygwin FAQ the guidlines one should use for distributing an

[Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-29 Thread Doru Carastan
This is in reply to Christopher Faylor's post http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01430.html I am trying to set the mind set here. As the person responsible for cygwin development, that's how we are progressing. I totally agree and apreciate the openness. Actually, it doesn't work all

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-28 Thread Doru Carastan
- Original Message - From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Doru Carastan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 6:24 AM Subject: Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Doru Carastan wrote: How about breaking free from

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 06:49:00PM -0700, Doru Carastan wrote: This is totally great news. I don't monitor the deloper list but it is great to hear that my http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00805.html suggestion is being considered. I am totally sorry about the fact that I couldn't get

[Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-28 Thread Doru Carastan
This is in reply to Christopher Faylor's message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01428.html. I hope it will show up correctly in the mail list. .. I expect that, as time progresses, there will be more checks to ensure that doesn't happen. 1.3.13 has new checks for this, in fact. This

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:47:28PM -0700, Doru Carastan wrote: .. I expect that, as time progresses, there will be more checks to ensure that doesn't happen. 1.3.13 has new checks for this, in fact. This makes sense only if RH views Cygwin as an Microsoft Windows OS UNIX extension and not as a

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-27 Thread Charles Krug
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:38:21PM -0700, Doru Carastan wrote: How about breaking free from using the windoze registry. There is absolutely no special need to use it IMO. I'll second that. Relying on a single monolithic binary file for system critical information is an extraordinarily bad

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Doru Carastan wrote: How about breaking free from using the windoze registry. There is absolutely no special need to use it IMO. All the mount info can be stored in a plain ASCII file like 'cygwin.cfg'. As part of its initialization the cygwin1.dll can use

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 23:15, Charles Krug wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:38:21PM -0700, Doru Carastan wrote: How about breaking free from using the windoze registry. There is absolutely no special need to use it IMO. I'll second that. Relying on a single monolithic binary file for

RE: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Vasaru
On the user mount in HKLM idea, it's a no-goer. Normal users don't have write access to most of HKLM, on any partly-secure install of NT (which is where the original posters issue arose). I may be wrong, but couldn't setup, or whoever creates the original HKLM/../cygwin key, set up the

RE: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 00:19, Dan Vasaru wrote: On the user mount in HKLM idea, it's a no-goer. Normal users don't have write access to most of HKLM, on any partly-secure install of NT (which is where the original posters issue arose). I may be wrong, but couldn't setup, or whoever

RE: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Vasaru
users. But we'll go with it while waiting for a better mount. Thanks, Dan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Collins Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 4:28 PM To: Dan Vasaru Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Proposal] Moving user mount

RE: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Vasaru
Robert, FWIW the HKLM user mounts would have the same security ramification (which is why it's not a generically viable solution). True, but one could fine-tune access rights to HKLM/Software/Cygwin such that: 1) All users have Create subkey permission in HKLM/./Cygwin/Users. 2) All user

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-27 Thread Shankar Unni
On 9/26/2002 9:38 PM, Doru Carastan wrote: How about breaking free from using the windoze registry. There is absolutely no special need to use it IMO. All the mount info can be stored in a plain ASCII file like 'cygwin.cfg'. As part of its initialization the cygwin1.dll can use

[Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-26 Thread Dan Vasaru
Problem: The mount -u command fails if a domain user's registry hive is not downloaded from the domain controller and no local hive cache exists. Solution: Change cygwin1.dll/mount to 1. store mount information under HKLM/CYGWIN/MOUNTS/{USER-SID}, or 2. let mount succeed without persisting

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-26 Thread Doru Carastan
How about breaking free from using the windoze registry. There is absolutely no special need to use it IMO. All the mount info can be stored in a plain ASCII file like 'cygwin.cfg'. As part of its initialization the cygwin1.dll can use GetModuleFileName() to figure out from where it was