IIRC $HOME is set in /etc/profile. You can easily change /etc/profile
to do what you like. What I used to do is make one /etc/profile then
everybody symlinked to it.
Unfortunately, that won't work for us here, since Cygwin is primarily
used by CS people who want a UNIX environment on their laptop,
From the Cygwin FAQ:
When starting Cygwin from Windows, `HOME' is determined as follows in
order of decreasing priority:
1. `HOME' from the Windows environment, translated to POSIX form.
> 2. The entry in /etc/passwd
> 3. `HOMEDRIVE' and `HOMEPATH' from the Windows environment
> 4. /
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