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Corinna Vinschen wrote on 2014-01-22:
> 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 AT server') and shell without /etc/passwd, though? (I'd include home directory in that list, except I know I can just set $HOME)

Thanks!
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