----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <> To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:24 PM | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Corinna Vinschen" <> | To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com> | Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:54 AM | || On Jul 29 10:35, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: || > From: "Corinna Vinschen" || > | I thought it's a good idea to have the domain by default. It's a bit || > | strange that a machine is running in a domain but as soon as another || > | user logs in, the passwd and possibly group information for this user || > | is missing. || > || > Well yes, I don't recall what the complaints were about. || > Perhaps long delays. || > But it caused problems to NEW cygwin users installing for the first || > time and without visibility or knowledge into what's happening. || || That would have required a decision when to call mkpasswd -d in the || postinstall script. I don't recall that we ever did that. | | I don't recall the specifics but it would have been a lot easier to use | -d rather than to create a -c . There must have been a good reason.
I searched the list, there are tons of mails about mkpasswd, most from the turn of the millennium, AFAICS. Here are two interesting ones: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-10/msg01413.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00663.html The first one may well have been the trigger to have a -c switch. The second gives you an example of what can happen, and this is not acceptable under setup. Pierre