X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: "bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied" with a certain user Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:43:40 -0600 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <974f412a0612101726m77057cccu1aa3d793da301800 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <974f412a0612111135m4d78f9f9v7489bf68ee764697 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <974f412a0612111135m4d78f9f9v7489bf68ee764697@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Tim Largy wrote: > Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> When you checked /etc/group, did you also check /etc/passwd? > > Yes. I'm attaching my /etc/passwd and /etc/group (after editing to > protect the privacy of users). See anything unusual? The account that > can't run Cygwin is called team-member. Nothing obvious, no. My first guess would have been that the user isn't *in* /etc/passwd, but... The entry in question looks OK to cursory inspection. Hopefully someone else has a better idea. -- Matthew "Lost a planet, Obi Wan has? How embarrassing..." -- Yoda (Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones) -- 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/