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Re: Login shell?

* Luke Kendall (Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:29:31 +1100 (EST))
> I just want to confirm, that the traditional Cygwin way of achieving
> this same result is still to modify cygwin.bat on a PC-by-PC basis
> (assuming one user per PC), rather than to take the traditional Unix
> way and change the shell field in /etc/passwd?

If you want to change your login shell you modify the passwd file. 
cygwin.bat is just a target for the shortcut. I think the zsh 
maintainer has a batch file that creates links to start zsh instead of 
bash.


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