On 8/16/19, David Karr wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:32 AM Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > >> Am 16.08.2019 um 15:28 schrieb David Karr: >> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 3:50 AM Andrey Repin wrote: >> >> >> Do you have %HOME% variable set in your user environment? >> >> Do you have %HOMEDRIVE%/%HOMEPATH% variables defined to something >> >> unsettling? >> >> > I checked "Environment Variables" in control panel, and I'm not setting >> > anything beginning with "HOME" in either user or system variables. >> >> That check is not really useful, though. >> >> You need to look at the actual environment constructed for a user >> process, at run-time. About the easiest is to start a Windows command >> shell (Start->Run "cmd") and look at the output of the "set" command. >> >> In cases of looking for names starting with some prefix, like here, you >> can narrow down the search: >> >> set HOME >> > > That just results in: > > HOMEDRIVE=C: > HOMEPATH=\Users\<myuid> > > I detailed this in another reply, but this would fit one of those checks, > which should result in "C:\Users\<myuid>", which is my Windows home > directory, which does exist. I don't want it to use this, but it's not > anyway. It's resulting in "/" as my Cygwin home.
Have you checked /etc/nsswitch.conf yet? $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree. # To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes. For a description # see https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch # # Defaults: # passwd: files db # group: files db # db_enum: cache builtin # db_home: /home/%U # db_shell: /bin/bash # db_gecos: <empty> Lee -- 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
