Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:40:09 EDT X-Mailer: Virtual Access by Atlantic Coast PLC, http://www.atlantic-coast.com/va Message-Id: To: cygwin Subject: Using login on a Win95 machine From: Brian Keener Reply-To: bkeener AT thesoftwaresource DOT com Not sure if this is where I should post this, but if I am in error please advise and I will try to post somewhere else and accept my apologies. I have been experimenting with the login command and profiles and bashrc files. In keeping with what I think is some of the new thinking regarding cygwin.bat and profiles I moved alot from cygwin.bat into profile so that cygwin.bat would stay in its natural form as distributed. Not having an NT server I knew I couldn't really use login but after reading some of the newsgroup archives I found how I could create my own passwd file and then use login by modifying cygwin.bat to run login instead of 'bash --login -i'. Well this worked so well, I thought what the heck, now I can setup multiple accounts in my passwd file and have it run different profiles and end up in different home directories etc. Those item do seem to work as they should but it seems my id always shows at the same user and effective user id not matter what id I use in login. Again this is a Win95 machine and it is set for networking since I use it at some of my clients as well. But I was still curious why something didn't change in my environment to reflect a different Id from passwd was used. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Brian Keener bkeener AT thesoftwaresource DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com