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Re: Use of SHELL env var by login


> Greetings, Andrew Schulman!
> 
> >> I just moved the cygwin installation. The "last" peculiarity I ran into 
> >> was that the login shell, with the shortcut "F:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe 
> >> -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -", a ps showed
> >> 
> >>      /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/bin/bash
> >> 
> >> instead of /usr/bin/bash
> >> 
> >> I tracked this down the the windows setting for SHELL, the one you get 
> >> to from windows' SystemProperties dialog, which was 
> >> C:/cygwin64/bin/bash. The /etc/passwd file specifies /bin/bash.
> >> 
> >> Is this expected behavior? (Though I can see why SHELL is there and I'd 
> >> need to change it)
> 
> > /etc/passwd is deprecated. Since Cygwin 2.5 IIRC, Cygwin no longer looks for it,
> > getting information about users directly from the operating system instead.
> > Unless you have a special need for it, you should remove it. Same for
> > /etc/group.
> 
> > In the absence of /etc/passwd, setting SHELL is the right way to set your login
> > shell.
> 
> One of the right ways, I'd say.
> If your aim is the integration of both environments, you MAY set variables,
> but if you then start a login shell, they may be voided by the startup scripts.
> I would advise using "more other" ways to configure Cygwin, i.e. using SAM DB
> comment field.

OK. First I've heard of that. Can you explain how Ernie would do it?


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