Greetings, David Karr!
> I wish I could get my own messages on this list, so I could add more
> information to my first note.
Just reply to your own initial message. Or better yet, subscribe.
> Running the installer again made no difference. It still thinks my HOME is
> "/".
Do you have %HOME% variable set in your user environment?
Do you have %HOMEDRIVE%/%HOMEPATH% variables defined to something unsettling?
> I don't know what environment variables are set or inspected by cygwin. I
> see that the "USERNAME" variable seems to have my expected value.
> I tried running "mkpasswd -d" and grepping for my userid, and it was there
> (along with many others).
> I can "fix" the environment in the mintty shell by setting HOME to
> "/home/<myuid>" and then sourcing my .bashrc and .bash_profile. That
> doesn't help my Emacs desktop shortcut, which uses "run2".
> I noticed that when I do an "ls -lt" in my homedir, instead of the owner
> and group of files being my simple uid, it's something like
> "<MYDOMAIN>+User(1944941)" and "2993517" (group and user, respectively, I
> believe).
Please remove any /etc/{group,passwd} files and try again.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, August 16, 2019 13:37:51
Sorry for my terrible english...
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