On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, FischRon.external wrote:
> > So, except for the pdksh postinstall (which is a genuine bug),
> > everything else seems to be related to the weird permissions on your
> > machine.
>
> Could it be related to the strange fact that my numeric user id
> suddenly has changed from 400 to 121833?
I'm not sure.
> One more note regarding the recreation of /etc/passwd: The inclusion of
> -d -u USERNAME now has the somewhat annoying side effect, that for
> example my homedirectory is now not printed as /cygdrive/h like before,
> but in network drive notation:
>
> $ pwd
> //MUCSDN03/FischRon/.ssh
>
> Of course, I can still access it as /cygdrive/h, so it is not a
> functional problem. Still I wonder whether it would be so bad to go back
> to the old version of /etc/passwd, where my homedirectory is listed as
> /cygdrive/h and everything else being equal....
You can *edit* /etc/passwd, you know, and change your home directory
(username, userid, etc) to whatever you want. Just be careful not to
change the SID field.
Igor
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