On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:58:09, Houder wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:40:28, David Karr wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:01 AM Houder wrote: > .. > > > > Please study /etc/profile where it says "here is how HOME is set" ... > > > > > > > Ok. This says: > > > > # 1) From existing HOME in the Windows environment, translated to a > > Posix path > > # 2) from /etc/passwd, if there is an entry with a non empty directory > > field > > # 3) from HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH > > # 4) / (root) > > > > I just brought up a cmd shell and entered "set" and looked at the result. > > > > 1. I don't have a "HOME" variable setting. > > 2. /etc/passwd doesn't exist in Cygwin. > > 3. I DO have both HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH set, and that points to my Windows > > home directory, which DOES exist. > > 4. This is what I am getting. > > Perhaps comment in file is not complete? (is getent perhaps used?)
Execute from a command prompt: <your Cygwin root>\bin\env and observe that HOME is added to the environment by the cygwin1.dll ... (at the end of the listing/environment array) Next, study - https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping - https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch You should find the answer here; somewhere (/etc/nsswitch.conf?), you define HOME (db_home:?) ... that is why HOME is known to the cygwin1.dll. Henri > > So, before this reboot, my Cygwin home directory has always been > > "/home/<myuid>", which has always resided at "c:\cygwin64\home\<myuid>". > > After the reboot, my Cygwin home directory is "/", which appears to > > translate to "c:\cygwin64" (from "cygpath -w /"). However, according to > > the rules listed in /etc/profille, I SHOULD be getting home set to > > "c:/Users/<myuid>", although I don't want that. > > > > Any other ideas? > > 1. cygcheck -srv? (include the compressed output to your reply) > > 2. getent passwd? (what home directory for your id?) > > 3. /etc/nsswitch.conf? (db_home?) > > Henri > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
