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Re: Suggestion for setup


On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:25:30AM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote:
>----- 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.

If /etc/passwd doesn't exist then I assume that a user has a reason for
that.  We want to be nice and not ask them again.  We maybe even want
to document the way this is stored so that one write to a file and change
setup's (or whatever is doing this) default behavior.

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