in cygwin, if I go to /etc there is no passwd. I'm definitely in cygwin.
My prompt is bash-3.2$
Oh, and there's no profile in /etc either. (or a .bash_profile, for
that matter).
Should that have been created automatically?
So it's pretty clear I did something fundamentally wrong in setup? Any
idea what?
I basically went to the cygwin page, picked "install now", downloaded
setup.exe,
right-clicked on it and chose "run as administrator", then ran it,
picked to install perl,
python, devel, the vim editor, and x11, and then let'er rip. I tried
it without running
as administrator, but that didn't work any better and left me with all
the files being
read only.
Thanks!!!
-Debra
Mark J. Reed wrote:
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!
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