Greetings, Thrall, Bryan! >> 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) You can set $USER the same way, you know? But that's a wrong way to go. IMO. You are supposed to be yourself, means, your login name. Else you'd have alot of stuff mishandled. But the change is indeed good. I hope that would solve the user/group encoding issues when using terminals with different charset. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 23.01.2014, <21:12> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
