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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:54:46 +0200
From: James Nord <teilo AT cdt DOT luth DOT se>
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: instalation in other than c:\
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > 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 could have sworn that I chose the install for all option, although I
could have missed it :-/

However the shortcuts icons are in the "all users" start menu and not
the Administrators.


> 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.

Sounds good.
 
> > 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.

What do you mean by a "globally useable" password file?  
The setup created it fine for me and populated it with the correct Users
& UIDs from my system - Hej it even got the home directories ;-)

/James

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