From: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com>
Subject: RE: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during uninstall in setup.exe
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <786EBDA1AC46254B813E200779E7AD36034A0CFB@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140122150431.GG2357@calimero.vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen wrote on 2014-01-22:
> Actually I'm working on a method to get rid of /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group. I have a partially working implementation now, which
> generates passwd and group entries by fetching the infos from Windows on
> the fly, compatible to the uids/gids and user/group names to SFU/Interix.
That's a really cool change. How will I customize my Cygwin user name (for convenient 'ssh server' instead of 'ssh user@server') and shell without /etc/passwd, though? (I'd include home directory in that list, except I know I can just set $HOME)
Thanks!
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Bryan Thrall
Principal Software Engineer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-23 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-22 0:06 Warren Young
2014-01-22 0:44 ` Warren Young
2014-01-22 1:02 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-22 6:02 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-01-22 15:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-01-23 16:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-01-23 17:01 ` Thrall, Bryan [this message]
2014-01-23 17:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-01-23 17:37 ` Thrall, Bryan
2014-01-23 17:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-01-22 21:04 ` Warren Young
2014-01-23 1:13 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-01-23 14:36 ` Warren Young
2014-01-23 15:18 ` Cliff Hones
2014-01-23 15:40 ` AW: [bulk] - " DEWI - N. Zacharias
2014-01-23 16:41 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-23 16:32 ` Warren Young
2014-01-23 17:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-01-23 17:58 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-23 20:11 ` Warren Young
2014-01-23 23:15 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2014-01-24 11:05 ` Andrey Repin
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