On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: > In a standard Cygwin install, the script > /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh runs 'mkpasswd -l -c > > /etc/passwd', which sets the home directory for each user. Normally this is > /home/username, but you can check it by looking at /etc/passwd. Then the > first time you start a shell, /etc/profile creates the home directory (as > specified in /etc/passwd) if it doesn't exist. This assumes that HOME is > not set in the Windows environment. Are you seeing something different?
Yes. I just installed from scratch -- download setup.exe and specify a new directory for install; then installed only bash and its prerequisites. When I run the default cygwin.bat in the new directory, I get: bash-4.1$ pwd /usr/bin bash-4.1$ echo $HOME /home/avk bash-4.1$ cd bash: cd: /home/avk: No such file or directory -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
