Simplify AD integration?
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Jul 30 18:40:00 GMT 2014
On Jul 30 11:15, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 7/30/2014 6:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> I have not been actively watching this thread but if I'm correct we're
> adding NIS like capabilities to Cygwin so that /etc/passwd can easily be
> filled with say everybody in the domain? If so then bravo!
>
> I also take it that it's not ready yet either.
It's ready for a given value of ready. I'm just looking for certain
details which needs to be clarified before the stuff can be released.
> When it is, how would I
> install it?
The existing code is in almost all developer snapshots of the last few
months. Just try the last one from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and
read my preliminary documentation attached to this mail again (and
which, incidentally, is now in the offical docs in the repo as well).
> >So I'd like to ask a few questions to which I'd like to have some brief
> >answers, kind of like a poll, to get a better idea how we should
> >proceed:
> >
> >1. Shall we remove the leading '+' from the builtin account names
> > or shall we keep it?
> >
> >2. Shall we stick to '+' as the separator char or choose another one?
> > If so, which one?
>
> How about "@"?
Dunno. It *might* be a good alternative to '+'. Personally I just
dislike that a '@' is a less "light" character and it might give a wrong
idea. Email: name AT domain. Cygwin account: domain AT name.
> >3. Shall we keep the `db_prefix' variability or choose one of
> > the prefixing methods and stick to it? If so, which one, auto,
> > primary, or always?
> >
> >Bonus question:
> >
> >4. Should Cygwin downcase all usernames when generating the Cygwin
> > username, so, if your Windows username is 'Ralph', your Cygwin
> > username will be 'ralph'?
>
> I say downshift them!
Corinna
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