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On 5/9/2013 16:39, Daniel Davis wrote:
>
> all new shells
> start from the same place (/usr/bin) with a broken path.

I don't know about your other problems, but this one sounds like 
/etc/passwd didn't get set up correctly.  Cygwin ships with a 'mkpasswd' 
script that does this for you.  I'd suggest reading all the text 
surrounding 'mkpasswd' found on this page:

	http://www.cygwin.com/faq.html

I could see problems due to spaces in the user name or Windows domains 
being an issue here, for example.

You might also need to do a 'mkgroup'.

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