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! -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International • Visual Simulation Systems • 5695 Campus Parkway • Hazelwood, MO 63042 Tel: (314) 551-8413 • Fax: (314) 551-8444 bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com • www.flightsafety.com • A Berkshire Hathaway company