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RE: Suggestion for setup
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-scm dot com>
- To: 'Michael A Chase' <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 00:06:53 +0100
- Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
Is there an easy and fast way to get the count of domain members only?
Setup (or an postinstall script) could then check against a sensible limit
(100 or 1000?) and warn and ask:
"There are 31415 domain members! I'll not load them unless you go to lunch
now..." 8-)
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A Chase [SMTP:mchase@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 20:26
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> 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 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 already a /etc/passwd.
> > Ditto /etc/group.
> >
> > 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 create /etc/passwd
> >
> > Then we have to remember what the user wanted.
>
> Not necessarily. The existance of /etc/password is already being checked
> in
> setup.exe. So if it exists, the default should be 4; if it doesn't, the
> default should be 1 to avoid delays in large domains.
> --
> Mac :})
>
[Heribert] [snip]
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