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RE: Cygwin from read-only drive
- From: "John Morrison" <john dot r dot morrison at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:51:20 -0000
- Subject: RE: Cygwin from read-only drive
Ivanov Pavel wrote
>
> Hello,
> I am trying to start the cygwin from network read-only shared
> drive. I can not edit any files in the drive and I can not add
> the login name and password in cygwin configuration files.
Could you get your network admin to add them once for all
users and just update as new users are added/deleted from the
windows system?
> Can I start the cygwin properly in such case?
You almost certainly can - but home/username/group won't
be right.
> May be I can submit configuration files?
Sure, email them - no promises though, we're all very
mean over here :)
J.
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