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Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Jim Burwell <jimb at jsbc dot cc>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 01:55:19 +0400
- Subject: Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?
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Greetings, Jim Burwell!
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> I've noticed after installing an update the Cygwin64 appears to ignore
> the contents of the shell field in /etc/passwd. I normally run
> /bin/tcsh as my shell, and changing this field used to result in any new
> login shells running tcsh. Now it just runs bash regardless.
> Has something changed?
Depends, how do you start your "login shell".
Also, what
getent passwd <yourloginname>
says about your changes?
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 26.02.2014, <01:53>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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