Cygwin AD integration home/shell changes

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> > Here's what you get:
>> 
>> I finally realized, what was tingling me all this time.
>> The implicit fallback mechanics. I'd rather want to have explicit declaration
>> and a failure message in case something isn't right. Much easier to fix system
>> issues, when the system tell you about them.

> The fallback mechanism is pretty much required to have a sane default
> which works for home users without having to change nsswitch.conf at
> all.  Also, not everybody will want error messages rather than some sane
> fallback (for any given value of "sane"), while if you don't want a sane
> fallback, you can easily create an unsane fallback to help you maintain
> your solution, e.g.

>   db_home: cygwin /invalid/read-only-path

Why not set defaults (in case of db_home) to

db_home: cygwin desc /home/%U

and remove fallback?
It just not seems right - creating workarounds to implement straight behavior.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 03.12.2014, <16:39>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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