Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Feb 16 12:00:00 GMT 2014
On Feb 16 03:30, Warren Young wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2014, at 5:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > No, that's not right. We have two mechanisms implemented you can
> > choose three out of four possible combinations:
> >
> > files only
> > db only
> > files, then db
>
> Yes, I realize that.
>
> While composing the previous email, I considered a 2-Boolean design:
>
> ignore_db=false
> ignore_files=false
>
> I rejected that design when I realized that ignore_files is redundant with respect to /etc/foo file existence. If the files are present, use them. If not, you have a DB-only configuration.
What if an admin wants to avoid that files are read at all, even if a
user manages to generate them?
Corinna
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