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. -- 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