From: "Flink, Timothy" <flink AT hp DOT com>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:46:29 +0000
Subject: configuring shell for users
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I am trying to modify the login shell in /etc/passwd to be a shell script i=
nstead of a binary file so I can modify the commands sent non-interactively.

However, when I do so, I get the following error when logging in via ssh or=
 "su - username":
 - /bin/newcmd.sh: Bad file descriptor

Where /bin/newcmd.sh is the script that I am trying to run.

The script itself runs OK when executed from a cygwin bash prompt and I'm n=
ot sure what I'm doing wrong.

Does anyone know how I can use a script as a login shell?

Can anyone point me to some documentation on how the login process works fo=
r Cygwin? I'm having trouble understanding exactly how things are supposed =
to work and what parts of the login process I could modify.

Thanks,

Tim

I installed cygwin 1.7 beta yesterday (9/15/09) on a Windows Server 2008 R2=
 Evaluation copy (6.1.7100). Package information from cygcheck is:

Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
_update-info-dir     00829-1
alternatives         1.3.30c-10
base-cygwin          2.0-1
base-files           3.8-4
base-passwd          3.1-1
bash                 3.2.49-23
bzip2                1.0.5-10
coreutils            7.0-2
crypt                1.1-1
csih                 0.9.1-1
cygrunsrv            1.34-1
cygutils             1.4.0-1
cygwin               1.7.0-61
cygwin-doc           1.5-1
dash                 0.5.5.1-2
diffutils            2.8.7-1
editrights           1.01-2
eventlog             0.2.9-1
findutils            4.5.4-1
gamin                0.1.10-10
gawk                 3.1.7-1
gettext              0.17-11
grep                 2.5.3-1
groff                1.19.2-2
gzip                 1.3.12-2
ipc-utils            1.0-1
less                 429-1
libbz2_1             1.0.5-10
libfam0              0.1.10-10
libgcc1              4.3.2-2
libglib2.0_0         2.20.4-1
libgmp3              4.3.1-3
libiconv2            1.13-10
libintl2             0.12.1-3
libintl3             0.14.5-1
libintl8             0.17-11
libncurses8          5.5-10
libncurses9          5.7-14
libpcre0             7.9-1
libpopt0             1.6.4-4
libreadline7         6.0.3-2
libwrap0             7.6-20
login                1.10-10
man                  1.6e-1
openssh              5.2p1-4
openssl              0.9.8k-2
rebase               3.0.1-1
run                  1.1.12-10
screen               4.0.3-1
sed                  4.1.5-2
syslog-ng            3.0.1-1
tar                  1.22-1
termcap              20050421-1
terminfo             5.7_20090228-10
terminfo0            5.5_20061104-10
texinfo              4.13-3
tzcode               2008h-1
vim                  7.2.148-1
which                2.20-2
zlib                 1.2.3-10
zlib-devel           1.2.3-10
zlib0                1.2.3-10

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