Re: Suggestion for setup

["Michael A Chase" <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew DeFaria" <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
To: "Michael A Chase" <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
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 create /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.bat unnecessarily, but
> > even before that it shouldn't have called mkpasswd or mkgroup if
> > /etc/passwd or /etc/group respectively already existed.
> >
> > Are the symlinks Cygwin or Windows style links? The test looks for the
> > exact file name and may be sensitive to the extension added to some
> > links in Windows. If you haven't already, try re-creating the symbolic
> > links from the bash prompt.
>
> It's a straight ln -s //<servername>/<sharename>/passwd /etc/passwd
> style link. Perhaps when I get some free time I can find a machine and
> check this out more thoroughly.

When I did 'ln -s dir/file.ext .', I ended up with file.ext.lnk in the
current directory.

Robert,
   It wouldn't be very hard to add /etc/passwd.lnk and /etc/group.lnk to the
test in desktop.cc.  Would you accept it?  I'm a bit hesitant because there
are lots of other files and directories that might also be affected.

> Still think an NIS (AKA yp) for Cygwin to talk to the Windows domain
> controller is the best solution.

It almost certainly would be, but the ones most likely to be able to do it
are pretty heavily subscribed already.  If you have anyone available,
patches would be welcome.
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