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Re: rlogin to xp home edition
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Ulrich Güttich <guettich at t-online dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:09:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: rlogin to xp home edition
- References: <200508141812.02125.guettich@t-online.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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