No /etc/passwd file at all? You're looking from bash, not from Windows, right? From Windows it'd be C:\Cygwin\etc\passwd...
This sounds like something went wrong during the installation. You can generate the default passwd file like so: mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd But if your prompt is "c:\cygwin" then that sounds like you're not in bash at all, but still in the Windows shell (cmd.exe or command.com). On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:44 AM, DY wrote: > Or maybe the problem is the profile. OK, totally different. The password file identifies the users who exist on the system and the location of their home directory. The profile is a set of bash commands to run automatically when you log in. The only connection is that your home directory is used to find your personal profile files. > After a bit of searching, I found the profile in /etc/defaults/etc, > but I don't know how to edit it properly to make the above happen. /etc/defaults/etc/profile is not used by anything; that's just a copy of the default file that goes into /etc/profile. What actually gets run is /etc/profile. But the way to set things up for your account is to make a .profile (or .bash_profile, if you'll always be using bash) in your home directory. To set the prompt you need to set the PS1 variable. But again, make sure you're actually running bash! -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- 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
