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Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:29:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:26:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>The common case would be for a shell to show up in /etc/shells. Under
>Fedora adds the shell to /etc/shells when the shell package is
>installed. I don't see any reason for us to do anything different.
Rephrasing that in English:
Under Fedora, shells add themselves to /etc/shells file when they are
installed.
cgf
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