Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/08/29/20:30:41
Richard Plana wrote:
>
>>> That's exactly what I read in the FAQ, but my system doesn't seem to
> be
>>> following that behavior.
>>>
>>> 1) Running "set HOME" in CMD.EXE gives the ff.:
>>>
>>> HOMEDRIVE=H:
>>> HOMEPATH=\
>>> HOMESHARE=\\essrv07\rplana$
>>>
>>> 2) /etc/passwd contains a Home entry that's prefixed with
>>> "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/"
>>>
>>> Neither seem to be the behavior that I'm getting. Everytime I log
> on, I
>>> end up with a home dir of "/home/$LOGNAME" and I don't know anymore
>>> where that is coming from nor how to change it.
>>>
>> Ah, your home is a network drive. You're not accessing it with 'ssh'
>> are you? You might want to check the permissions this directory has
>> (getfacl) and whether you can access the directory from the shell
> you've
>> opened.
>>
>> You may not want to use a remote home directory anyway. It's going to
> be
>> slower.
>
> Well, I actually want to use a local partition for my home drive, but
> instead of <CYGWIN>/home/<user>, I want to use /cygdrive/c/Documents\
> and\ Settings/<user>. The network "home" drive is something that Windows
> sets but I'm totally ignoring. I'm only including that as the FAQ
> discusses it.
>
> So in summary,
>
> 1) I want my user's home dir to be /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\
> Settings/<user>.
>
> 2) /etc/passwd has the correct entry for it.
>
> 3) I can "cd" into that directory
>
> 4) I am using ...
>
> My spologies. I was going to write that I use cygwin's terminal emulator
> to start the shell, but that wasn't exactly right (as opposed to SSH'ing
> to it). In actuality, I was using Poderosa to start my cygwin session
> and apparently you can overwrite the choice of home directory when
> connecting to a cygwin session. In Poderosa, it was configured to
> connect to "/home/myuser". I changed that config to
> "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/myuser" and now I'm happily logged
> in properly.
Good to know.
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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