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


On Feb 14 08:50, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 2/14/2014 6:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >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,
> 
> Isn't /bin/bash already the default?  The output of `mkpasswd -l'
> seems to confirm this.

Oh, right.  I didn't remember that.  So I guess I should do the same
for automatically created entries, right?


Corinna

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