"bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied" with a certain user

[Matthew Woehlke]

Tim Largy wrote:
> I am having trouble running Cygwin as user X (not the real user name)
> on a machine running Windows XP Professional SP2.
> [snip various attempts to find out what makes 'X' different]
> 
> I'm out of ideas. How can running Cygwin be different for user X? What
> should I look at next?

When you checked /etc/group, did you also check /etc/passwd?

-- 
Matthew
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  -- Yoda (Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones)


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