Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/03/25/11:02:46
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Uwe Mayer" <usb8 AT rz DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de>
To: "Cygwin Mailinglist" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 10:22 PM
Subject: login to bash
> Hi,
>
> I switched OS from 98 to win2k and cannot get the "login" to the bash
> shell working. Also the "su" won't do its work.
>
> Cygwin was installed from the internet using the setup tool supplied.
> My win2k login is "merkosh". When I start Cygwin I land in
> /home/merkosh. I imported the group and passwd settings with "mkgroup
> -l >group" and "mkpasswd -l >passwd":
>
> merkosh AT M111 /etc
> $ cat group
> Everyone:S-1-1-0:0:
> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
> None:S-1-5-21-1644491937-813497703-1957994488-513:513:
> Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544:
> Backup Operators:S-1-5-32-551:551:
> Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
> Power Users:S-1-5-32-547:547:
> Replicator:S-1-5-32-552:552:
> Users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
>
> merkosh AT M111 /etc
> $ cat passwd
> Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
> SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
> Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
>
Administrator::500:513:,S-1-5-21-1644491937-813497703-1957994488-500:/home/A
dministrator:/bin/sh
>
Guest::501:513:,S-1-5-21-1644491937-813497703-1957994488-501:/home/Guest:/bi
n/sh
> merkosh::1000:513:Uwe
Mayer,S-1-5-21-1644491937-813497703-1957994488-1000:/home/merkosh:/bin/sh
>
> In the mailing list history I found out I hat to "set CYGWIN=ntsec"
> and now the file permissions can be set.
> However "login" won't accept "merkosh" or "Administrator" to log in
> with the NT5 passwords. I wanted it to replace the "bash -i --login"
> line in cygwin.bat I use to start Cygwin. I get the error msg "incorrect
login"
> When I try "su merkosh" the PS1 string is misinterpreted and the
> prompt turns into:
>
> merkosh AT M111 ~
> $ su merkosh
> \[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $
>
> or:
> merkosh AT M111 ~
> $ su Administrator
> su: cannot set user id: Not owner
>
> Also I am wondering... since when I run Setup.exe to install Cygwin
> the "CYGWIN=ntsec" wasn't set then. I only set it recently when
> browsing the mailing list threads. Shouldn't I have to reassign the
> all file access permissions?
>
> I hope somebody can give me an idea where to start to get all this
> working.
>
> Ciao
> Uwe
>
>
>
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