On Jun 20 14:01, Martin Vetter wrote: > >I just upgraded cygwin and now > >I cannot login to the machine via ssh unless > >I change /etc/passwd to use /bin/bash for my shell. > > same here after a cygwin update (windows 2000, cygwin 1.5.17): > > - zsh as login shell for non-administrator = login via sshd hangs (!) > - bash as login shell for non-administrator = login via sshd works fine > - zsh as login shell for the administrator = login via sshd works fine > > workaround: > use cygwin1.dll release 1.5.14,
There's a far better way: Go a step forward instead of three steps back. Try the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/. I just tried to use zsh as login shell from an ssh session and guess what? It works. > hope this helps.[...] Nearly as much as telling us that it works on Linux. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
