Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory

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

On Nov 11 07:11, Bryan Berns wrote:
> One big vote for the '/etc/nsswitch.conf' idea.  I think the truth of
> the matter is that enterprise environments are way too dynamic (and
> inconsistent) to attempt to satisfy the majority of configurations
> with any particular default ordering assumption.
> 
> Another user brought up a good point about desire for Cygwin to
> operate in 'read-only' mode -- something that I'd also really love to
> see addressed.  The need for /tmp and /var/log to be 'writable'
> results in some problems in a high-security environments.

This can be easily fixed by providing matching mount points in
/etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d.


Corinna

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