Problems with man

[Larry Hall]

Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote:

<snip>

>>>OK:
>>>C:\>d:\cygwin\bin\bash
>>>bash-2.05b$ /bin/cat /etc/passwd
>>>SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
>>>Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
>>>.
>>>.
>>>.
>>>
>>
>>duane:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11054:10513:duane,U-LUNARCORP\duane
>>,S-1-5-21-
>>
>>>25853599
>>>-59532045-941767090-1054:/cygdrive/c/C:/DOCUME~1/duane:/bin/bash
>>
>>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>One thing that can only help is fixing your home directory to point to
>>something reasonable.
>>
> 
> Holy Cow! Good eye, though I don't know how _that_ happened?? When does
> this entry get created? Did I have something funky in my Windows Env
> Variables? Changing them in Windows doesn't change them _everywhere_ in
> Cygwin, eh?


Nope.  /etc/passwd is generated by mkpasswd which is invoked as a
postinstall script when you run setup.  I can't fathom how it came
up with way you have though.




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