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Re: Suggestion for setup
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 09:51
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> >Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running "mkpasswd
> >-d" in such a case would be useful.
>
> This is just an issue for first time installations, right? AFAICT,
> /etc/passwd should not be produced if there is already a /etc/passwd.
> Ditto /etc/group.
>
> I guess the best solution is to present the user with several options
>
> 1) Create /etc/passwd using local accounts?
>
> 2) Create /etc/passwd using domain accounts?
>
> 3) Create /etc/passwd using local and domain accounts?
>
> 4) Don't create /etc/passwd
>
> Then we have to remember what the user wanted.
Not necessarily. The existance of /etc/password is already being checked in
setup.exe. So if it exists, the default should be 4; if it doesn't, the
default should be 1 to avoid delays in large domains.
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