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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
-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
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From: Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
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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, 2002 00:17
Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
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From: Michael
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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
that
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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 patch, but it should be fairly
straightforward
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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Corinna
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.
- Do we
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:
I
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 proceed and
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From: Rick Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:22 PM
To: Bernard Dautrevaux; 'Robert Collins'; Stephano Mariani;
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Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
--- Bernard Dautrevaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
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From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:51 PM
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously
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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) wrote:
At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna
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 issue for
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
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
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux
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
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
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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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Sent: Wednesday
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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
wouldn't want to
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From: Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 13:46
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
Michael A Chase wrote:
I recently messed with the function that does that, so I can confirm
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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 quite a while, I tweaked the test so
it wouldn't
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From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 be very hard to add /etc/passwd.lnk and /etc
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From: Stephano Mariani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:29 AM
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Subject: Suggestion for setup
Perhaps this is already on the wish list, but it would be
useful if setup could set the CYGWIN variable up with
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