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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:09:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Ulrich =?iso-8859-1?q?G=FCttich?= <guettich AT t-online DOT de>
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Subject: Re: rlogin to xp home edition
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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Ulrich Güttich wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> (i hope this is the correct forum to this question)
>
> I have a XP home edition running using cygwin and the inetd package. I
> have created /etc/passwd and /etc/group as described. The only user (and
> there is only one at an XP home edition with usable privileges) is
> called otto. I can rlogin to this client using the account otto and his
> password. Everything okay.
>
> What I do not understand is: where do the strange uid and gid (e.g.
> mkpasswd) of the most files come from? Rlogin seems not to use passwd
> and gid and I can not force it to login with /bin/bash (which is defined
> in /etc/passwd). It always comes up with /bin/sh (which does not
> understand any aliases and others).
>
> A drastic workaround at the moment is to symlink bash to sh.

Please start here:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

A WAG, in the absense of the required information: somehow your system
mounts got screwed up, or it's a permission issue.  The output of
"cygcheck -svr", attached as an uncompressed text attachment (as requested
in the above link) should clarify matters.
	Igor
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