On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Ulrich Güttich wrote: > Hallo, > > (i hope this is the correct forum to this question) > > I have a XP home edition running using cygwin and the inetd package. I > have created /etc/passwd and /etc/group as described. The only user (and > there is only one at an XP home edition with usable privileges) is > called otto. I can rlogin to this client using the account otto and his > password. Everything okay. > > What I do not understand is: where do the strange uid and gid (e.g. > mkpasswd) of the most files come from? Rlogin seems not to use passwd > and gid and I can not force it to login with /bin/bash (which is defined > in /etc/passwd). It always comes up with /bin/sh (which does not > understand any aliases and others). > > A drastic workaround at the moment is to symlink bash to sh.
Please start here: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html A WAG, in the absense of the required information: somehow your system mounts got screwed up, or it's a permission issue. The output of "cygcheck -svr", attached as an uncompressed text attachment (as requested in the above link) should clarify matters. 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! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
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