If you are getting a "bash-2.05b$" prompt you could look at /etc/group and /etc/passwd. I find I need to hand-edit these two files both at home and at work because in both locations I call myself "fergus" with all my stuff under /home/fergus/: however, at home on installation of Cygwin the computer thinks I'm "Administrator" and at work it thinks I'm something else again. If you have copied a lot of stuff under (dunno, maybe something like) /home/john/ and that's who you think you are and that's how you want Cygwin to think of you, then /etc/group/ and /etc/passwd/ need to be allowed to catch up with this decision.
If there's anything to this conjecture, then you could compare these two files on the working setup with those on the non-working setup, and the comparison might help you decide what to change? Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
