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 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:17:34 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: sshd and /usr/bin/zsh Message-ID: <20050428191734.GE24021@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4270FD0F DOT 8030702 AT kitware DOT com> <42713115 DOT 5010600 AT kitware DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42713115.5010600@kitware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:53:09PM -0400, Brad King wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Brad King wrote: >>>I just upgraded cygwin and now I cannot login to the machine via ssh >>>unless I change /etc/passwd to use /bin/bash for my shell. If I use >>>/usr/bin/zsh then the login appears successful but no prompt ever shows >>>up. >>First off, it's always a good idea to read and follow >>. Without the information requested >>there, we don't know much about your system. > >Oops, sorry. My eyes scrolled through the left column of the web page >and found "FAQ". When the problem was not in the FAQ I went back and >scrolled up and found "Mailing Lists" before noticing the "Reporting >Problems" link. I suggest you add a link to >http://cygwin.com/problems.html from http://cygwin.com/lists.html in the >description of when posting to the main cygwin list is okay. Yeah, we should probably have known better than to think that anyone would read the left bar or the long "I have a question!" exposition at the top of the mailing list page. Certainly, anyone would need to have it reiterated one more time after they've ignored all of the other hints available to them. cgf -- 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/