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Re: Can't Change Home Dir


Richard Plana wrote:
Hi,

I can't seem to change my user's HOME dir so that it uses
"/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/" as its prefix. I've changed the
home dir entry in the /etc/passwd file, but each time I connect, $HOME
is still set to using "/home/" (which is under Cygwin's root). I've
logged off all cygwin shells, rebooted my machine, but I can't get the
configuration to take. The FAQ just talks of changing /etc/passwd (which
I've done) and XP's HOME* variables (which don't seem to be used
anyway).

'/etc/profile' lists the order of precedence for how Cygwin determines your home directory. It says:

Here is how HOME is set, in order of priority, when starting from Windows
1) From existing HOME in the Windows environment, translated to a Posix path
2) from /etc/passwd, if there is an entry with a non empty directory field
3) from HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH
4) / (root)

If that doesn't help, please read and follow the problem reporting
guidelines found at the link below with your next posting on this subject.

<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>

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