Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/18/13:47:25
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> It's rather frustrating that there is no chsh, or worse still that the
> /etc/passwd shell is ignored and one has to resort to ugly hacks to get
> a desire(d/able) shell on startup. I've seen mention of a chsh here, why
> not include it?
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg00532.html
This won't help until cygwin.bat uses some mechanism to coordinate with
/etc/passwd. I recall proposing it before, but can't find the message in
the list archives at the moment (if anyone has a pointer, please e-mail it
to me).
Basically, "login" does look in /etc/passwd for the shell, so I proposed a
modification of login that logs in as the current user without the need to
enter a password. That way, cygwin.bat can simply call "login --current"
to start the user-preferred shell.
Either that, or write a chsh that also changes /cygwin.bat (ugly).
> Discovered for myself what's noted where as well
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg00323.html
>
> the fact that bash is invoked directly. And switiching it to the
> anaologous tcsh -l -i does not work, invalid option, so tcsh needs to be
> told to source the rc files explicitly for some reason etc.
Eh? From "tcsh --help":
-l act as a login shell, must be the only option specified
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"tcsh -l" works just fine.
> why not have the shortcut link run login
See above -- login, as implemented now, will require typing in a password.
> or some such (like a terminal e.g; the old --not even listed in
> obsolete--rxvt) to kick things off properly?
How's this going to help? rxvt doesn't look in /etc/passwd -- it runs
/bin/sh by default.
> Of course that would require logging in, as well as the ability to
> actually set passwords, etc.
>
> [jpierce AT dof-con122 /cygdrive/c]$ passwd
> passwd: unknown user jpierce
Your user is missing in /etc/passwd. Try "mkpasswd -u jpierce >>
/etc/passwd". Once you have a correct user entry, "passwd" should work.
Igor
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