Re: Cygwin AD schema and configuration extensions (was Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Nov 26 22:28, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Ok, so we have a cygwin schema extension now.  The file is called
> > cygwin.ldif and is in the Cygwin CVS repo.  It gets installed to
> > /usr/share/cygwin.  The schema extension consists of two auxiliary
> > classes:
> [â]
> > Do you think this makes sense?  Would you actually use these AD
> > extensions, or do you see your admins using them if available?
> 
> This is _very_ interesting and I hope to have some discussion with our
> AD admins about this.  It will be some time though, there is just too
> many other things going on right now.  But if they allow this to be
> used, I think it would indeed be possible to get rid of all local
> configuration for a new install on a client machine.

It would be possible for sure.  The question is, would it be actually
used?  In some environments, schema and configuration extensions are
avoided like the plague.


Corinna

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