Re: Cygwin homedirs and roaming profiles.
At 08:08 PM 2/12/2004, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen you wrote: Hi. I've been unable to find information on this in the documentation, the FAQs and on the net: I have a situation where I want to use Cygwin in a multiuser environment where users hop from one computer to the next, with roaming profiles (stored on a Samba server). I have two problems: 1) It appears domain users are stored in the local passwd file in a domain\user format on each workstation. But each user has to run Cygwin once to have this (and the homedir) set up. Are there neat ways to do all this automaticly and correctly in my situation? This actually happens on installation, through postinstall scripts. So unless the installation happens through some method other than setup.exe (in which case it is unsupported ;-) ), these files should be on the local machine as part of the install. OK, I just wanted to correct any misconception you had about how and when these files are made. On to your question now. If the machines in question are always on the same domain (it sounds like they are), you can put the passwd and group files on a central server and have all the local machines just point to them via symlinks. If you want to set them up on the fly, you can always add a little script that's invoked from /etc/profile or some such that checks for the file's existence locally and creates the link if it's not there already. 2) It looks like I can't have my users' homedirs on the Samba server also be the Cygwin homedir for that user - if I want ssh to work. Ssh complains about ownership of the ~/.ssh file. Is there a way to fix this short of patching ssh? Add smbntsec to your CYGWIN environment variable and then make sure the permissions are correct for .ssh and subordinates. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Cygwin homedirs and roaming profiles.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: At 08:08 PM 2/12/2004, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen you wrote: Hi. I've been unable to find information on this in the documentation, the FAQs and on the net: I have a situation where I want to use Cygwin in a multiuser environment where users hop from one computer to the next, with roaming profiles (stored on a Samba server). I have two problems: 1) It appears domain users are stored in the local passwd file in a domain\user format on each workstation. But each user has to run Cygwin once to have this (and the homedir) set up. Are there neat ways to do all this automaticly and correctly in my situation? This actually happens on installation, through postinstall scripts. So unless the installation happens through some method other than setup.exe (in which case it is unsupported ;-) ), these files should be on the local machine as part of the install. OK, I just wanted to correct any misconception you had about how and when these files are made. On to your question now. If the machines in question are always on the same domain (it sounds like they are), you can put the passwd and group files on a central server and have all the local machines just point to them via symlinks. Or just mount /etc (or even /etc/passwd and /etc/group) off a network drive... If you want to set them up on the fly, you can always add a little script that's invoked from /etc/profile or some such that checks for the file's existence locally and creates the link if it's not there already. 2) It looks like I can't have my users' homedirs on the Samba server also be the Cygwin homedir for that user - if I want ssh to work. Ssh complains about ownership of the ~/.ssh file. Is there a way to fix this short of patching ssh? Add smbntsec to your CYGWIN environment variable and then make sure the permissions are correct for .ssh and subordinates. Larry Hall The second solution may not always work, depending on the setup of the samba server (over which the OP may not have any control). If all else fails, set StrictModes no in /etc/sshd_config. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Cygwin homedirs and roaming profiles.
At 09:09 PM 2/12/2004, Igor Pechtchanski you wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: At 08:08 PM 2/12/2004, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen you wrote: Hi. I've been unable to find information on this in the documentation, the FAQs and on the net: I have a situation where I want to use Cygwin in a multiuser environment where users hop from one computer to the next, with roaming profiles (stored on a Samba server). I have two problems: 1) It appears domain users are stored in the local passwd file in a domain\user format on each workstation. But each user has to run Cygwin once to have this (and the homedir) set up. Are there neat ways to do all this automaticly and correctly in my situation? This actually happens on installation, through postinstall scripts. So unless the installation happens through some method other than setup.exe (in which case it is unsupported ;-) ), these files should be on the local machine as part of the install. OK, I just wanted to correct any misconception you had about how and when these files are made. On to your question now. If the machines in question are always on the same domain (it sounds like they are), you can put the passwd and group files on a central server and have all the local machines just point to them via symlinks. Or just mount /etc (or even /etc/passwd and /etc/group) off a network drive... OK, yeah. I was thinking of that variant when I mentioned the above but I didn't explicitly mention it. The central server doesn't have to be anything more than some shared folder somewhere on the network. Don't anybody go a buyin' a Windows server machine just for this! ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
