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Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...


On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:31:14PM +0000, Dan Littley wrote:
> I have installed/setup SSH and I can SSH to localhost fine.  But everything looks crap!  The bash prompt looks like this:
> 
> 
> No passphrase required.
> \[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $

Your /etc/passwd contains /bin/sh as login shell.
/bin/sh is "ash", not "bash". So you will have to
change your /etc/passwd entry to contain /bin/bash
as login shell.

> and mutt is all in black and white.

Isn't PUTTY an vt100+ emu? Try setting TERM to vt100 or
similar.

Corinna

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