On Aug 18 15:14, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Okay, I just read DaveK's reply. I don't do much with domain users, so I
> missed that. Pierre or Corinna, care to comment?
I've checked in a patch to passwd, which contacts $LOGONSERVER by default.
If that doesn't help, I added a new option:
$ pass
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> Igor said:
>
> >How's this going to help? rxvt doesn't look in /etc/passwd -- it runs
> >/bin/sh by default.
>
> It might be slightly more obvious that one needs to change something
> other than /etc/passwd to specify the invoked shell (for terminals th
Original Message
>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: 18 August 2005 18:47
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c]$ passwd
>> passwd: unknown user jpierce
>
> Your user is missing in /etc/passwd. Try "mkpasswd -u jpierce >>
> /etc/passwd". O
Igor said:
>Eh? From "tcsh --help":
>-l act as a login shell, must be the only option specified
> ^
>"tcsh -l" works just fine.
Doh! indeed.
>How's this going to help? rxvt doesn't look in /etc/passwd -- it runs
>/
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> It's rather frustrating that there is no chsh, or worse still that the
> /etc/passwd shell is ignored and one has to resort to ugly hacks to get
> a desire(d/able) shell on startup. I've seen mention of a chsh here, why
> not include it?
>
> http:/
Original Message
>From: Jerrad Pierce
>Sent: 18 August 2005 18:09
> the /etc/passwd shell is ignored
No it isn't. That's complete fiction. You need to log in, of course.
cheers,
DaveK
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