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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:51:09 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com, teilo AT cdt DOT luth DOT se
In-reply-to: <200007250954375.SM00160@KENDALLB>
Subject: Re: instalation in other than c:\
References:  <200007250954375 DOT SM00160 AT KENDALLB>


> BTW, this brings up some points about the installer. Shouldn't the 
> default installation stuff be stored in a global registry setting 
> somewhere instead of the current user setting?

If you check the "all users" option in the root path dialog, it will
install everything (registry, desktop, start menu) globally.  You
*did* check that box, didn't you?

I'm not sure what the default should be, but I suspect that the right
way would auto-detect if you had admin privs and select defaults
accordingly.

> Or perhaps some 'user install' utility should be created to set this
> up correctly for each user that wishes to use the shared Cygwin
> installation?

We've thought about that, but better would be to fix mkpasswd so that
it creates a globally usable password file.

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