* Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd
2011-11-27 12:31 Installation problems with home path and sshd gabier
@ 2011-11-27 12:31 ` Marc Girod
2011-11-27 16:19 ` gabier
2011-11-27 12:34 ` Marc Girod
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From: Marc Girod @ 2011-11-27 12:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
gabier wrote:
>
> 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory.
> The mintty console opens in /cygdrive/c/Users/username/Desktop/FREENAS,
> which is merely the link to the icon used to open the console. I created a
> home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I am in it. But mintty
> still opens in its own link directory.
>
Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two sources for
the definition of home:
the HOME environment variable, and the entry in /etc/passwd.
I have myself:
~> id
uid=1000(marc) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users)
~> grep marc /etc/passwd
marc:unused:1000:513:U-sartre\marc,S-1-5-21-1848142070-2449128644-2827604881-1000:/home/marc:/bin/bash
~> echo $HOME
/home/marc
Marc
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* Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd
2011-11-27 12:31 ` Marc Girod
@ 2011-11-27 16:19 ` gabier
2011-11-27 16:58 ` Marc Girod
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From: gabier @ 2011-11-27 16:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Marc Girod wrote:
>
> Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two sources for
> the definition of home:
> the HOME environment variable, and the entry in /etc/passwd.
> I have myself:
> ~> id
> uid=1000(marc) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users)
> ~> grep marc /etc/passwd
> marc:unused:1000:513:U-sartre\marc,S-1-5-21-1848142070-2449128644-2827604881-1000:/home/marc:/bin/bash
> ~> echo $HOME
> /home/marc
> Marc
>
Quite interesting. My id command gives ("Josette" is the name of the user
and "PC-de-Josette" is the name of the computer)
Josette
unused
1000
513
U-PC-de-Josette\Josette,S-1-5-21-81082327-430422718-1981534784-1000
/home/Josette
/bin/bash
and the echo $Home command gives "/home/Josette"
So it seems quite correct. It does not explain why the mintty console does
not open in the home directory, but it seems to prove that it is only a
console problem.
As you can see, the user name is in the computer name, so the grep command
was not effective and I got all users listed. I noticed the following entry.
"
sshd
unused
1002
513
sshd
privsep,U-PC-de-Josette\sshd,S-1-5-21-81082327-430422718-1981534784-1002
/var/empty
/bin/false
"
Does it seem also correct ? If not it could explain my sshd problems ?
:) Gabier
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* Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd
2011-11-27 12:31 Installation problems with home path and sshd gabier
2011-11-27 12:31 ` Marc Girod
@ 2011-11-27 12:34 ` Marc Girod
2011-11-27 12:36 ` Marc Girod
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From: Marc Girod @ 2011-11-27 12:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
gabier wrote:
>
> 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory.
> The mintty console opens in /cygdrive/c/Users/username/Desktop/FREENAS,
> which is merely the link to the icon used to open the console.
> I created a home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I am in it.
> But mintty still opens in its own link directory.
>
Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two sources for
the definition of home:
the HOME environment variable, and the entry in /etc/passwd.
I have myself:
~> id
uid=1000(marc) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users)
~> grep marc /etc/passwd
marc:unused:1000:513:U-sartre\marc,S-1-5-21-1848142070-2449128644-2827604881-1000:/home/marc:/bin/bash
~> echo $HOME
/home/marc
Marc
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* Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd
2011-11-27 12:31 Installation problems with home path and sshd gabier
2011-11-27 12:31 ` Marc Girod
2011-11-27 12:34 ` Marc Girod
@ 2011-11-27 12:36 ` Marc Girod
2011-11-27 12:38 ` Marc Girod
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From: Marc Girod @ 2011-11-27 12:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
gabier wrote:
>
> 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory.
> ...
> I created a home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I am in it.
> But mintty still opens in its own link directory.
>
Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two sources for
the definition of home:
the HOME environment variable, and the entry in /etc/passwd.
I have myself:
~> id
uid=1000(marc) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users)
~> grep marc /etc/passwd | tr : '\n'
marc
unused
1000
513
U-sartre\marc,S-1-5-21-1848142070-2449128644-2827604881-1000
/home/marc
/bin/bash
~> echo $HOME
/home/marc
Marc
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* Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd
2011-11-27 12:31 Installation problems with home path and sshd gabier
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2011-11-27 12:36 ` Marc Girod
@ 2011-11-27 12:38 ` Marc Girod
2011-11-27 14:43 ` Marc Girod
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From: Marc Girod @ 2011-11-27 12:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
gabier wrote:
>
> 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory.
> ...
> I created a home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I am in it.
> But mintty still opens in its own link directory.
>
Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two sources
for the definition of home:
the HOME environment variable, and the entry in /etc/passwd.
I have myself:
~> id
uid=1000(marc) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users)
~> grep marc /etc/passwd | tr : '\n'
marc
unused
1000
513
U-sartre\marc,S-1-5-21-1848142070-2449128644-2827604881-1000
/home/marc
/bin/bash
~> echo $HOME
/home/marc
Marc
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* Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd
2011-11-27 12:31 Installation problems with home path and sshd gabier
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2011-11-27 12:38 ` Marc Girod
@ 2011-11-27 14:43 ` Marc Girod
2011-11-28 13:36 ` Michael Lutz
2011-11-28 14:00 ` Andy Koppe
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From: Marc Girod @ 2011-11-27 14:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
gabier wrote:
>
> 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory.
> ...
> I created a home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I am in it.
> But mintty still opens in its own link directory.
>
Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two sources
for the definition of home:
the HOME environment variable, and the entry in /etc/passwd.
I have myself:
~> id
uid=1000(marc) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users)
~> grep marc /etc/passwd | tr : '\n'
marc
unused
1000
513
U-sartre\marc,S-1-5-21-1848142070-2449128644-2827604881-1000
/home/marc
/bin/bash
~> echo $HOME
/home/marc
Marc
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* Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd
2011-11-27 12:31 Installation problems with home path and sshd gabier
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2011-11-27 14:43 ` Marc Girod
@ 2011-11-28 13:36 ` Michael Lutz
2011-11-28 14:27 ` gabier
2011-11-28 14:00 ` Andy Koppe
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From: Michael Lutz @ 2011-11-28 13:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Am 27.11.2011 11:37 schrieb gabier:
> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1069:
> (Following sentence translated from French) The failure to open a session
> has prevented the start of the service.
Open the properties of the service and enable "Allow service to interact
with desktop" (or something like that). If that option is already enabled
I don't have any more ideas either.
Michael
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* Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd
2011-11-27 12:31 Installation problems with home path and sshd gabier
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2011-11-28 13:36 ` Michael Lutz
@ 2011-11-28 14:00 ` Andy Koppe
2011-11-28 14:01 ` gabier
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From: Andy Koppe @ 2011-11-28 14:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 27 November 2011 10:37, gabier wrote:
> I got sshd to work between a Windows 7 computer and a FreeNAS/FreeBSD
> server, and it works well now, thanks to you here. Now I try to implement
> the same thing on a Vista laptop which is in the same home network. I
> installed the same Cygwin, following the same howto.
Which howto? The author of that should probably be your first port of call.
> But there are unexpected problems.
> 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory.
> The mintty console opens in /cygdrive/c/Users/username/Desktop/FREENAS,
> which is merely the link to the icon used to open the console. I created a
> home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I am in it. But mintty still
> opens in its own link directory.
> Cygwin commands work though. I could excecute all file and permissions
> commands.
How did you install mintty, and how are you invoking it? If you invoke
it without arguments, it'll run your shell as a so-called non-login
shell (as is standard behaviour for terminal emulators). This means
that /etc/profile won't be sourced, which is where your home directory
gets created and cd'd to.
To tell mintty to invoke the shell as a login shell and hence source
/etc/profile, pass a '-' (i.e. a hyphen/minus sign) as the last
argument. That's what the mintty shortcut created by setup.exe does.
Andy
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* Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd
2011-11-28 14:00 ` Andy Koppe
@ 2011-11-28 14:01 ` gabier
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From: gabier @ 2011-11-28 14:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Andy Koppe wrote:
>
> How did you install mintty, and how are you invoking it? If you invoke
> it without arguments, it'll run your shell as a so-called non-login
> shell (as is standard behaviour for terminal emulators). This means
> that /etc/profile won't be sourced, which is where your home directory
> gets created and cd'd to.
>
> To tell mintty to invoke the shell as a login shell and hence source
> /etc/profile, pass a '-' (i.e. a hyphen/minus sign) as the last
> argument. That's what the mintty shortcut created by setup.exe does.
>
Thank you Andy,
I understand where the problem is, but I am not sure to understand what is
to be done, i.e. what arguments give to mintty ?
I installed it with the Cygwin setup. Its shortcut is
"C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -". The hyphen is indeed there. By contrast, the
regular Cygwin console (which opens in the right directory) calls a
cygwin.bat, which contains
@echo off
C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
bash --login -i
Should I make mintty call the same bat file ?
:) gabier
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