I Just figured it out less than sixty seconds after sending that post (I wish it always worked that way!!!).
I had $HOME defined in my windows environment (for some strange reason) to be C:\. Deleting that system environment variable solved the problem. Paul "news.gmane.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message a6os96$dq6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:a6os96$dq6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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 > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
