G. Huang wrote: > So my question is: Is there a way to change the home directory on the XP > machine to c:\cygwin\home\gang? Or alternatively, get around the space > problem?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home In /etc/passwd, set the the user home directory field to the desired value, ex. /cygdrive/c/home/gang. The workaround for the problem with spaces in paths is to not have spaces in paths - as the FAQ has already told you. One possible way to achieve this is to use the 8.3-style-version of the path. For example, the user home directory field in /etc/passwd for my main account is set to /cygdrive/c/DOKUME~1/mks/Home (i. e. pointing to C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\mks\Home) and I have never had any problems with this setting. Regards mks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
