X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100326105007.GU7718@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20100326105007 DOT GU7718 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:06:37 +0000 Received: by 10.239.165.72 with SMTP id w8mr180514hbd.122.1269669997875; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <416096c61003262306h1b499b79tb786fb2c20e18668@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] mintty-0.6.1-1 From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Corinna Vinschen: >> - Fall back to /bin/bash rather than /bin/sh if no shell is specified >> otherwise. This is for the benefit of Windows domain account users, >> for whom Cygwin setup does not create /etc/passwd entries by default. > > Wouldn't it be more helpful to open a MessageBox like this: > > "Your user account has no /etc/passwd entry. =C2=A0Ask your lazy administ= rator > =C2=A0to add it. =C2=A0And tell her not to forget to add the domain group= s to > =C2=A0/etc/group while being at it." :) I was just trying to dodge complaints about not getting the full prompt and .bashrc or .bash_profile not being sourced. Didn't mean to imply that setup should query the domain user database. It would have helped though if I'd verified that the change to /bin/bash as fallback actually makes a difference. It doesn't, because the Cygwin DLL sets the SHELL variable according to the user's /etc/passwd entry and to /bin/sh otherwise. And /etc/profile warns about the missing /etc/passwd entry anyway. So I think I'll revert that change. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple