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Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:28:16 +0100
- References: <20010125153114.A282@sidious.org>
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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