On Sun, 22 May 2005, Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > i'd like to use cygwin from a normal windows-app. The problem is, that i > need a login-shell, so that all environment-vars are properly set. The > problem: bash -li always changes the current workdir! > > IMHO, executing "bash -li" shouldn't change the workdir. > No other system i know does that. Script may rely on that behaviour. > > /etc/profile contains the like > cd "$HOME" > > That line cannot easily be removed. Starting the Cygwin-Link installed > by the setup wouldn't cd to ~ anymore. This behaviours is liked by most > users i guess (including my own). > > Any suggestions, how the situation could be improved?
Yes, you're correct in that on many Linux systems /etc/profile doesn't change the working directory. The directory is changed to $HOME by the login process. One possibility is adding a Cygwin-specific option to login(1) that would log in as the current user without requiring the username to be specified at the command line, to avoid local/domain username conflicts (e.g., "login -l") and skip printing the motd (as if .hushlogin is found). If I understand the security implications correctly, any user can log in as herself without a password (using, for example, "login -f"). Then cygwin.bat can be changed to use "login -lpf" instead of "bash -li". This would simplify scripts like 'chere'. It would also have the advantage of using the users' favorite shell from /etc/passwd in console logins. Now, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI>. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
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