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Subject:	Re: "bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied" with a certain user
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:34:53 -0600
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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?

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Matthew
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