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Re: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during uninstall in setup.exe
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:15:38 +0400
- Subject: Re: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during uninstall in setup.exe
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 23.01.2014, <21:12>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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