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Strange bash login behaviour -- no home directory
- From: "news.gmane.org" <paul dot galbraith at t4g dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:53:53 -0500
- Subject: Strange bash login behaviour -- no home directory
- Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
I'm using the ntsec option of CYGWIN, on a freshly installed version of
cygwin that was downloaded today.
I've used mkgroup and mkpasswd to include domain entities (including me) in
/etc/group and /etc/passwd.
When I start cygwin ("bash --login -i" from the default cygwin.bat), I'm
recognized as being logged in with my proper user id, but my home directory
(as reflected by $HOME) is "/cygdrive/c", even though /etc/passwd clearly
defines my home directory as "/home/paul.galbraith".
If I "login" from within the bash shell, $HOME is then set properly and I'm
dumped into my home directory!
Does anyone know why I have to login from the shell in order to get $HOME
set properly?
Cheers,
Paul
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