RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory

Tue Nov 11 16:57:00 GMT 2014

On Nov 11 18:29, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> >> > Shall the "db" entries utilize the Windows home folder if it exits(*)
> >> > and drop using the unixHomeDirectory? It seems inevitable…
> >> 
> >> Use of AD implies some level of security consciousness. The ability to write to c:\cygwin — not just during installation, but during all use thereafter! — comes out of a world where every user is a local Administrator.
> >> 
> >> This answer I wrote on Stack Overflow is one way to solve the problem today:
> >> 
> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26666180/
> >> 
> >> It might not be a bad idea if Cygwin started doing this sort of thing by default in the future. (Obviously for new installs only.)
>> > What I gather from the replies so far is this:
>> > - Nobody really cares for unixHomeDirectory.
>> As I understand it from replies, it's not "nobody care", it's "this is wrong
> way of doing it".

It's not the wrong thing if it's not used for anything else in a
company.
> > Another:
>> > 1. Add a setting to /etc/nsswitch.conf which allows to specify one of
> > the above:
>> > home: [unix|win|home]...
>> > - "unix" means, set pw_dir to unixHomeDirectory
> > - "win" means, set pw_dir to homeDirectory
> > - "home" means, set pw_dir to /home/$USER
> > - Multiple entries are possible.
> > - Default in the absence of this setting is: always set pw_dir to
> > /home/$USER.
>> How about a slight modification to this?
>> nsswitch.conf configurable settings:
> user: Use %AppData%/Cygwin%PLATFORM% (Separate directory for different
> platform Cygwins)

I really don't like this one. Your naming scheme (user/system/cygwin)
has its merits, but I don't see that a home directory of any sort
belongs under AppData.
Corinna
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Red Hat
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