Just wanted to confirm that for cygwin 1.7, one can still for the most
part clone a cygwin installation simply by copying over the entire
cygwin tree.
I know there are a few caveats:
1. You may want to remake your passwd and group files since the SID's
will likely differ. Presumably, it would be sufficient to do:
mkpasswd -cl >| /etc/passwd
mkgroup --local >| /etc/group
2. You would need to re-establish your services using cygrunsrv
That still leaves me with a couple of questions I want to confirm:
A. What if anything do you have to do to get ntsec working properly?
B. In general, should one make new ssh keys in /etc?
C. More generally, now that sshd has it's own user, would one be best
off just rerunning the script to set up sshd again (that would
cover all the first 2 questions)?
So in summary, other than the passwd/group files, windows services,
and ssh/sshd associated stuff, is there anything that can't or
shouldn't be copied over?
Thanks!
Jeff
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