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Re: Cygwin AD integration home/shell changes


Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> >> > Here's what you get:
>> >> 
>> >> I finally realized, what was tingling me all this time.
>> >> The implicit fallback mechanics. I'd rather want to have explicit declaration
>> >> and a failure message in case something isn't right. Much easier to fix system
>> >> issues, when the system tell you about them.
>> 
>> > The fallback mechanism is pretty much required to have a sane default
>> > which works for home users without having to change nsswitch.conf at
>> > all.  Also, not everybody will want error messages rather than some sane
>> > fallback (for any given value of "sane"), while if you don't want a sane
>> > fallback, you can easily create an unsane fallback to help you maintain
>> > your solution, e.g.
>> 
>> >   db_home: cygwin /invalid/read-only-path
>> 
>> Why not set defaults (in case of db_home) to
>> 
>> db_home: cygwin desc /home/%U
>> 
>> and remove fallback?
>> It just not seems right - creating workarounds to implement straight behavior.

> It's not a workaround from my POV to provide a fallback.  Creating a
> workable passwd entry is important.  If I implement it as you suggest
> above, I would still provide the typical "set home to the root dir"
> default.  Sure, that might be an option.

If you mean "complain and set home to the root", then I'm happy with this
solution.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 05.12.2014, <08:06>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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