[top-posting fixed] On Sep 9 10:31, Jürgen Wagner wrote: > On 09.09.2017 09:53, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > On 09/09/2017 07:06, Ben Stover via cygwin wrote: > >> By default the user folder of Cygwin (under Win7) is in a subdirectory > >> > >> <installation folder>\home\<username> > > > > from cygwin point of view "/home/<username>" > > > >> How can I put it into a separate directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin? > >> [...] > >> If possible I would like to specify my new home directory not as > >> absolute but as relative path. > >> > >> I would prefer a customization somwhow in "Cygwin.bat" like:
We *have* extensive customization, see below. > >> > >> set cygwinhome=..\myhome > >> > >> Mind the double dots standing for "go up one level". > >> > >> How can I achieve this? > >> > >> Ben > >> > > mkpasswd -c >> /etc/passwd > > > > change the fifth field of "/etc/passwd" > > from "/home/<username>" > > to "/cygdrive/d/tools/cygwin/myhome" > > > > close all cygwin process and rerun. /etc/passwd should be the absolut last resort. Preferredly the changes are in /etc/nsswitch.conf and the user database, SAM or AD. Here's the howto: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-passwdinfo For instance, change /etc/nsswitch.conf to contain db_home: /your/desired/homedir/%U > Hi, > of course, you could change something in /etc/passwd to define a new > home directory. However, it is good to have the convention of home > directories being under one root (at least for non-administrative > accounts). Therefore, my preferred solution is to make a symbolic link. > > /home/USER => /cygdrive/d/tools/... > > You can have symbolic links with relative paths as a destination, > however, that would assume you still are in the directory universe of > Cygwin. In this case, you are not. Therefore, you have to address this > via /cygdrive/... > > Besides... what is the advantage of having a relative path here, anyway? > If you install different flavours of Cygwin as siblings under a common > root, the absolute path will be the same for all instances. I'd suggest a mount point in /etc/fstab instead, e.g. C:/cygwin64/newhome /home ntfs binary 0 0 That has the additional advantage that the POSIX ACL handling is under your control, rather than being the default noacl handling of cygdrive paths. Alternatively, see the /etc/nsswitch.conf customizations above. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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