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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin


On Feb 14 11:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 14 11:16, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> > I've installed that snapshot on my work laptop, part of AD domain. I
> > moved passwd and group out of the way and noticed my .bashrc is not
> > executed.
> > [...]
> > Most noticeable difference between the two are in the dates of the
> > files (The months are in Dutch, and not in "long-iso") and not showing
> > the dot-files. Among others, I have set an export LANG=en_US
> 
> ...hopefully LANG='en_US.utf8"...
> 
> > and an
> > alias for "ls" in my bashrc for that.
> 
> Hmm, off the top of my head I can't explain this.  Is that
> via mintty or a Windows console?  What does `id' print?  Is there a
> difference in upper/lower case of your name?
> 
> [...time passes...]
> 
> Oh, hang on.  I'm a tcsh gal, so I set /bin/tcsh in my AD domain entry.
> However, the default is *not* /bin/bash, but /bin/sh at the moment.  I'm
> a bit fuzzy on bash, but does bash read the .bachrc file only if it's
> called bash and not if it's called sh?  What happens if you symlink
> your .bashrc to .profile (Not that I suggest this as the ultimate
> solution, this is just for testing)?

Ultimately, the right thing to do is either:

- We switch Cygwin to use /bin/bash as default, instead of /bin/sh,

- or, you ask your admin to set the "loginShell" attribute of your
  AD entry to "/bin/bash".


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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