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RE: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during uninstall in setup.exe
- From: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:01:36 -0600
- Subject: RE: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during uninstall in setup.exe
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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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