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Re: instalation in other than c:\
- To: KendallB at scitechsoft dot com
- Subject: Re: instalation in other than c:\
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:51:09 -0400
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, teilo at cdt dot luth dot se
- References: <200007250954375.SM00160@KENDALLB>
> BTW, this brings up some points about the installer. Shouldn't the
> default installation stuff be stored in a global registry setting
> somewhere instead of the current user setting?
If you check the "all users" option in the root path dialog, it will
install everything (registry, desktop, start menu) globally. You
*did* check that box, didn't you?
I'm not sure what the default should be, but I suspect that the right
way would auto-detect if you had admin privs and select defaults
accordingly.
> Or perhaps some 'user install' utility should be created to set this
> up correctly for each user that wishes to use the shared Cygwin
> installation?
We've thought about that, but better would be to fix mkpasswd so that
it creates a globally usable password file.
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