Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

[Dirk Fassbender]

Am 27.02.2014 01:45, schrieb Jim Burwell:
> On 2/26/2014 16:29, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 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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> Yep.  At least for common shells.  If someone is super security
> conscious, they can police their /etc/shells file.  But the most common
> usage would be to simply allow a shell that's installed, since if a
> person installed a shell, you can safely presume they want to use it.
>
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One remark about /etc/shells
The inetutils and inetutils-server packages comes with a file 
/etc/defaults/etc/shells
and the postinstall scripts installs these file into /etc/shells.

Regards
Dirk

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