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From: weber_w@apollo.COM (Walt Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: rlogin not switching to user's home directory
Keywords: rlogin home directory tcp
Message-ID: <3d85b2bc.10b48@apollo.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 88 16:30:00 GMT
References: <591@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: weber_w@apollo.UUCP (Walt Weber)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <591@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> nexus@ninja.cc.umich.edu writes:
>I am using an Apollo 4000 running SR9.7, Domain/IX 9.5, and TCP/IP 3.1 and I am 
>having trouble with rlogin.  When I rlogin, I am placed in the root directory rather
>than my home directory (which is /usr/nexus) and I am placed in the bourne shell 
>instead of the C shell.

1) shell problem:
At 9.7, the unix-derived tcp/ip daemons use /etc/passwd to determine the shell to
invoke -- logins through the display manager create a set of processes based upon
files in `node_data or /sys/dm , and **BY CONVENTION** from a startup file read
from $HOME/user_data (actually ~/user_data).

/etc/passwd is created by /etc/crpasswd, which assigns unix uid/gid numbers
dynamically (a.k.a. dyna-magically).  It leaves the shell field blank.  This may
be edited to the shell of your choice (the sys admin manual for bsd4.2 states this
at the bottom of page 4-23).  Note the caution about editing ONLY this field.

If you edit your entry in /etc/passwd to change the shell, rlogind will invoke the
shell you specify.

2) Home directory:

On Apollo machines, /usr is actually a link to $(systype)/usr -- is it possible that
/usr/nexus exists in /sys5/usr and not in /bsd4.2/usr, and that your default systype
for the NODE is sys5?  When rlogind runs, it runs with a systype of bsd4.2, and if it
doesn't find your home directory at /bsd4.2/usr/nexus, it will leave it set to /.

...walt...
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