Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Feb 14 14:04:00 GMT 2014


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.

Ken

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