On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:17 PM L A Walsh wrote: > On 2019/08/15 18:28, David Karr wrote: > > I logged into my Win7 laptop and I saw it was having some connection > > problems, so I decided to reboot. > > > > After the reboot I found that Cygwin had some basic problems. I brought > up > > a mintty window (C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash --login) and the > > prompt looked odd. It wasn't the PS1 value that I set in my .bashrc. It > > also seemed to be saying that my current directory was "/", which is not > my > > homedir. > > > You might want to read the section in the cygwin user manual, especially > https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping > > If you don't have /etc/passwd or /etc/group, cygwin will generate > DOMAIN+USER entries dynamically each time you start cygwin (or per-boot) > if you have cygwin processes started at boot. The /etc/passwd and group > files do not exist by default. > > If you want consistency -- same user names+id's with each boot and > MS-Win compatible names, you may want to create /etc/passwd > and /etc/group using mkpasswd, mkgroup and hand tuning. It isn't > suggested for most users, but it may be something you want. > > I would most like to understand what changed to make this suddenly start happening.
Also note the following: $ mkpasswd -u <myuid> -d <myuid>:*:2993517:1049089:U-ITSERVICES\<myuid>,S-1-5-21-2057499049-1289676208-1959431660-1944941:/home/<myuid>:/bin/bash -- 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
