Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  3 08:55, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 2/26/2014 5:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Weird, I was pretty sure we already have an /etc/shells file installed
> >by default.  Apparently not.  So, shan't we add one?
> >
> >   /bin/sh
> >   /bin/bash
> >   /bin/dash
> >   /bin/mksh
> >   /bin/zsh
> >   /usr/bin/sh
> >   /usr/bin/bash
> >   /usr/bin/dash
> >   /usr/bin/mksh
> >   /usr/bin/zsh
> >
> >The base-files package would be a good place to be.  David?
> 
> Currently inetutils-server provides /etc/defaults/etc/shells. If
> that file is required by base functionality now, then I've no
> problem removing it and modifying inetutils' postinstall/preremove
> scripts. But we'll need to synchronize the uploads of
> inetutils-server-$next and base-files-$next.
> 
> Speaking of base-files, version 4.1-2 has been in test now for over
> two years...works fine here and fixes a problem with $TEMP and other
> "standard" variable names: 4.1-1 set both $TEMP and $temp, but these
> are not distinguished by native processes, leading to confusion if a
> native process reset $TEMP (but not $temp).

I had a problem when running it in an early stage of 64 bit development,
but I don't remember at all what the problem was.  Do you run it on
64 bit as well?


Corinna

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