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Re: No etc/passwd (was) Re: (everything!) command not found


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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