Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 27 08:09, Dirk Fassbender wrote:
> 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.

Good hint.  That's where I remember /etc/shells from.


Corinna

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