Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Feb 27 00:45:00 GMT 2014


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:26:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>The common case would be for a shell to show up in /etc/shells.  Under
>Fedora adds the shell to /etc/shells when the shell package is
>installed.  I don't see any reason for us to do anything different.

Rephrasing that in English:

Under Fedora, shells add themselves to /etc/shells file when they are
installed.

cgf

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