Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

Thank you both for trying to help me out. I'm primarily a web developer and lack much of the system admin knowledge that would definitely help in this situation. > > Yes, HOME is set in the Windows environment and I am not able to change it. > > How so?... > > > With the "SET" command in a

Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

> Is HOME set in the Windows environment already? If so, this > might interact with the setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf, which *only* > works for entries taken from the passwd DB (getpwnam, getpwuid calls). > > How do you start mintty? It should be started with a single parameter, > a dash, e.g.:

db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

I'm trying to set the HOME directory of Cygwin to a local folder. My computer is on a network and the Windows HOME variable is being mapped to a network drive. I'm not able to change this. And for some reason, this causes the default HOME directory for my Cygwin terminal to be set as either "/c