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On 13/02/2014 21:48, David Stacey wrote:
chere (with the -s passwd) reads etc/passwd and starts the default shell of the current user from the explorer context menu. For now, I will expect users wanting this functionality to keep using/etc/passwd. If we grow a mechanism where the login shell can be queried easily, I'll update chere to use that.On 13/02/2014 19:36, m0viefreak wrote:Grepping through /bin I found at least one other package that makes use of /etc/passwd as a file directly (cvsbug), but since I don't have everything installed I can only assume there are more cygwin-packages and other programs someone might build from source.My complete install is proving quite useful this week: chere xhereAll of these reference /etc/passwd; some of the above also use /etc/group.
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