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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 02:08:31 +0100 (CET)
From: "Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen" <daniel AT copyleft DOT no>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Cygwin homedirs and roaming profiles.
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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?

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?

Just looking for input or pointers - I'll do the work myself. :)

-- Daniel


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