Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 14 22:48, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> 2014-02-14 11:48 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen:
> > Oh, hang on.  I'm a tcsh gal, so I set /bin/tcsh in my AD domain entry.
> > However, the default is *not* /bin/bash, but /bin/sh at the moment.  I'm
> > a bit fuzzy on bash, but does bash read the .bachrc file only if it's
> > called bash and not if it's called sh?  What happens if you symlink
> > your .bashrc to .profile (Not that I suggest this as the ultimate
> > solution, this is just for testing)?
> 
> Just tested and copied .bashrc to .profile and that solved the problem.

Good, so it was really just a shell thingy.

> I vote[1] for /bin/bash being the default shell.

Done in CVS.

> Regards,
> Frank
> 
> [1] not that there is any voting going on ;-)

Not quite.  This *is* a big change, so if I can smooth the ride for
the users, I'm open to change.


Corinna

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