Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:14:32 +0100 Message-ID: <7818-Tue03Jul2001121432+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "=?big5?q?Sam=20C.?=" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: change default shell In-Reply-To: <20010703032220.46461.qmail@web13907.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010703032220.46461.qmail@web13907.mail.yahoo.com> On Tuesday 3 Jul 01, Sam C. writes: > In linux, I could change the default shell to (say) > tcsh by changing the /etc/passwd file. > > But I could not change the default shell to tcsh in > cygwin by editing the /etc/passwd. If you start Cygwin from the shortcut, then look at the shortcut properties. You should be able to figure it out from there. /etc/passwd is used by login/telnet/rlogin/ssh. Not by the shortcut. (One for the FAQ perhaps?) David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/