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Re: "bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied" with a certain user

From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:34:53 -0600
Subject: Re: "bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied" with a certain user
References: <974f412a0612101726m77057cccu1aa3d793da301800@mail.gmail.com>

Tim Largy wrote:

I am having trouble running Cygwin as user X (not the real user name)
on a machine running Windows XP Professional SP2.
[snip various attempts to find out what makes 'X' different]

I'm out of ideas. How can running Cygwin be different for user X? What
should I look at next?

When you checked /etc/group, did you also check /etc/passwd?

--
Matthew
"Lost a planet, Obi Wan has? How embarrassing..."
 -- Yoda (Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones)


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