RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Dec 2 16:03:00 GMT 2014
On Nov 28 13:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 28 15:08, Andrey Repin wrote:
> > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> >
> > >> The meaning of the schemata depend on the setting:
> > >>
> > >> db_home:
> > >>
> > >> windows AD and SAM: Utilizes the setting of the homeDrive or
> > >> homeDirectory attributes, or their SAM "Home folder"
> > >> counterparts. The Windows path is converted to a
> > >> POSIX path.
> >
> > > I'm not really happy with this. It requires to write some value to the
> > > homeDrive/homeDirectory attributes, because it doesn't fall back to the
> > > Windows default values.
> >
> > > So, another question is this: Shall "db_home: windows" fall back
> > > to the default Windows home dir if homeDrive/homeDirectory are empty?
> >
> > Yes, if you mean it.
> > I mean, if you intend to use the same directory OS using for user's home
> > directory, you gotta use something that resembles the OS behavior.
>
> Good point. It's just a bit lengthy to implement.
Implemented in the latest snapshot at https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Please give it a try.
Thanks,
Corinna
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