Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Aliases no longer defined? Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:59:10 -0500 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: > > >>Peter Davis wrote: >> >>>Ok. There ain't much worth cracking my system for anyway. Here's the >>>/etc/passwd file from one machine below. >>> >>>Thanks for any help with this! >>> >>>-pd >>> >>>SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: >>>Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: >>>Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-WINBOX-XPRO\Administrator,S-1-5-21-3996086570-211328594-3762194425-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash >>>Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-WINBOX-XPRO\Guest,S-1-5-21-3996086570-211328594-3762194425-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash >>>HelpAssistant:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513:Remote Desktop Help Assistant Account,U-WINBOX-XPRO\HelpAssistant,S-1-5-21-3996086570-211328594-3762194425-1004:/home/HelpAssistant:/bin/bash >>>pdavis:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1006:513:Peter Davis,U-WINBOX-XPRO\pdavis,S-1-5-21-3996086570-211328594-3762194425-1006:/home/pdavis:/bin/bash >>>Peter Davis:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1005:513:U-WINBOX-XPRO\Peter Davis,S-1-5-21-3996086570-211328594-3762194425-1005:/home/Peter Davis:/bin/bash >>>SUPPORT_388945a0:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:CN=Microsoft Corporation,L=Redmond,S=Washington,C=US,U-WINBOX-XPRO\SUPPORT_388945a0,S-1-5-21-3996086570-211328594-3762194425-1002:/home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash >>>SUPPORT_3f151ab9:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:CN=Dell Computer Corporation,L=Round Rock,S=Texas,C=US,U-WINBOX-XPRO\SUPPORT_3f151ab9,S-1-5-21-3996086570-211328594-3762194425-1003:/home/SUPPORT_3f151ab9:/bin/bash >>>Pdavis:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11059:10513:Pdavis,U-WORKDOM\Pdavis,S-1-5-21-138833350-1684557462-623647154-1059:/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Pdavis.WORKDOM:/bin/bash >> >>Well, you seem to have 3 accounts, one with a space in it, and one with >>different case. Do you really have 3 different accounts? > > > Rolf, > > And what does this have to do with aliases not being exported? FWIW, the > UIDs on all 3 accounts are different... > Well, if he *thinks* he's logging on as 'pdavis', but is really logging on as 'Pdavis', then bash might be using the 'wrong' home dir. Peter, what happens if you ". /home/pdavis/.bashrc" (without using ~) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/