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RE: 1.5.25: Can't Change User's Home Dir [SOLVED]



> > That's exactly what I read in the FAQ, but my system doesn't seem to
be
> > following that behavior.
> >
> > 1) Running "set HOME" in CMD.EXE gives the ff.:
> >
> > HOMEDRIVE=H:
> > HOMEPATH=\
> > HOMESHARE=\\essrv07\rplana$
> >
> > 2) /etc/passwd contains a Home entry that's prefixed with
> > "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/"
> >
> > Neither seem to be the behavior that I'm getting. Everytime I log
on, I
> > end up with a home dir of "/home/$LOGNAME" and I don't know anymore
> > where that is coming from nor how to change it.
> >
> 
> Ah, your home is a network drive.  You're not accessing it with 'ssh'
> are you?  You might want to check the permissions this directory has
> (getfacl) and whether you can access the directory from the shell
you've
> opened.
> 
> You may not want to use a remote home directory anyway.  It's going to
be
> slower.

Well, I actually want to use a local partition for my home drive, but
instead of <CYGWIN>/home/<user>, I want to use /cygdrive/c/Documents\
and\ Settings/<user>. The network "home" drive is something that Windows
sets but I'm totally ignoring. I'm only including that as the FAQ
discusses it.

So in summary, 

1) I want my user's home dir to be /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\
Settings/<user>. 

2) /etc/passwd has the correct entry for it.

3) I can "cd" into that directory

4) I am using ...

My spologies. I was going to write that I use cygwin's terminal emulator
to start the shell, but that wasn't exactly right (as opposed to SSH'ing
to it). In actuality, I was using Poderosa to start my cygwin session
and apparently you can overwrite the choice of home directory when
connecting to a cygwin session. In Poderosa, it was configured to
connect to "/home/myuser". I changed that config to
"/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/myuser" and now I'm happily logged
in properly.

Thanks for the help!
--

Richi Plana

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