Re: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]

[Joseph Marcel]

I've run into this problem as well on Windows 2000 after my upgrade yesterday.
I'm getting around it by unsetting HOME in /etc/profile (as the first line), so /etc/profile will do what it has been doing in the past (important for 1st time users on our team).

A side effect, I'm fairly certain, my Id changed as well. My home was always /home/Administrator (the user on the machine); even though I log on to a domain. 'id -un' formerly returned Administrator??? I created a symbolic link (ln -s /home/Adminstrator /home/jmarcel).

So, potentially two issues:
1) HOME is set to /;
2) Id is now that of my domain (jmarcel:unknown), and I think it was Administrator:none (which I'm less concerned with, as our machines are single user laptops/clients);

Joe

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Subject: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]
Date: 25 Nov 2002 11:26:59 -0800
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For what it's worth, I too had this problem on Windows 2000, but I was
able to work around it by putting

        set HOME=/home/Administrator

into my cygwin.bat.
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:52:18 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:26:59AM -0800, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> For what it's worth, I too had this problem on Windows 2000, but I was
> able to work around it by putting

Is it the case that your passwd file does not contain sids, i.e. wasn't
built with mkpasswd, and does not contain either a line starting with your
Windows username?
If so, I would recommend running mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd (backup the
passwd file first; use mkpasswd -d -l if you are a domain user),
and edit your entry as you like it.
If not so, please send me the outputs of "id" and "strace true".

Pierre

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