Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:03:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: saber DOT zrelli AT st DOT com cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: different mount table per bash session In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Content-Disposition: INLINE; FILENAME="1.txt"; CREATION-DATE="Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:38:04 +0200" Saber, Please honor the Reply-To: -- there is no need to Cc: me, I'm on the list. Also, that's a *really* weird method of quoting... I wonder which mailer uses it... Cygwin gets the user information from Windows. It relies on Windows to do the authentication (in case of NT). Cygwin has an /etc/passwd (and an /etc/group), but uses it to store information that Windows doesn't (such as the login shell). Use Windows tools (e.g. "net user") to add users and groups. "login" most likely won't work for switching user contexts; for details see . The preferred method for switching user contexts is either "ssh user AT localhost" with a running sshd, the Windows-provided "runas" command (see "runas /?"), or "at /interactive ... login user" (see "at /?" for details). Igor P.S. Your "Shift" key is still not fixed. On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 saber DOT zrelli AT st DOT com wrote: Igor, the user that cygwin considers is the windows user , is it possible , to emulate multi user session system with cygwin ; make cygwin consider a /etc/passwd like file. allowing user switch using login command ? when i see to /bin , i don't see neither adduser , nor addgroup. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: different mount table per bash session Author: pechtcha at internet/dd.RFC-822=pechtcha AT cs\.nyu\.edu Date: 4/21/2003 4:02 PM On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 saber DOT zrelli AT st DOT com wrote: > Hi there , > > I'm using cygwin bash to run a certain nmber of processes on separate > drives , each time i start a new process i mount it's working drive , > but this way all previous processes change their working drive ; cause > of the latest mount. > could some one tell me how could i resolve this problem. > > Tks . Saber, I'm assuming you're only talking about auxiliary mounts, and that the main mounts ("/", "/usr/bin", and "/usr/lib") are the same for all bash instances. Cygwin only supports two mount tables at a time for each user (one system table and one user table). The system table is shared among all users. Aside from the fact that (as Rolf has pointed out) you don't really *need* to mount anything, the only way you can get separate mount tables in separate bash sessions is by running them as different users. You could use either "ssh" or "at /interactive" to switch user contexts. Don't forget to use "mount -u", or you'll be changing the system mount table. Igor P.S. Your "Shift" key seems to be malfunctioning... -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/