Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:28:16 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs... Message-ID: <20010125172816.D1493@cobold.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010125153114.A282@sidious.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010125153114.A282@sidious.org>; from dan@sidious.org on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:31:14PM +0000 On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:31:14PM +0000, Dan Littley wrote: > I have installed/setup SSH and I can SSH to localhost fine. But everything looks crap! The bash prompt looks like this: > > > No passphrase required. > \[\033]0;\w\007 > \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] > $ Your /etc/passwd contains /bin/sh as login shell. /bin/sh is "ash", not "bash". So you will have to change your /etc/passwd entry to contain /bin/bash as login shell. > and mutt is all in black and white. Isn't PUTTY an vt100+ emu? Try setting TERM to vt100 or similar. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple