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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:12:12 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Setting and using a password in W98
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:57:02PM -0000, fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote:
>Q3.  Could the contents of c:\Cygwin\cygwin.bat be "officially" tweaked
>to c:\Cygwin\bin\login in order to gain the password-protection that is
>not conferred by the current contents of c:\Cygwin\cygwin.bat, or would
>this change simply induce other, different, equally bad consequences?!

We're not going to be modifying cygwin.bat.  The reasons have been
mentioned in other messages in this thread.

cgf

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