Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C606299.1020400@Salira.com> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 14:54:17 -0800 From: Andrew DeFaria Organization: Salira Optical Networks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Feb 2002 22:54:18.0103 (UTC) FILETIME=[0AB5C070:01C1AE98] Michael A Chase wrote: >> Since no login occurs, place it in your batch file calling bash, or in >> /etc/profile like I do. Here is my /etc/profile that correct many such >> environment variable problems I found over the time: > The problem with setting HOME to a fixed value in cygwin.bat or > /etc/profile is that limits your cygwin installation to a single user. > That's why the default /etc/profile allows $HOME to be passed > through from the user's Windows environment. I never understood this about the default /etc/profile. If I run a mkpasswd -d (since I'm in a domain) I see the home field properly formatted from the NT domain controller (except I change it to /home/$USER and use a mount for /home under Cygwin). Thus my /etc/profile is: USER="`id -un`" HOME=`grep ^$USER: /etc/passwd | cut -f6 -d:` SHELL=`grep ^$USER: /etc/passwd | cut -f7 -d:` # Set up USER's home directory if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then echo "WARNING: HOME not set! Defaulting to /home/$USER." HOME="/home/$USER" fi if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then echo "WARNING: HOME directory did not exist! Logging in with HOME = /tmp" HOME="/tmp" fi export HOME USER SHELL -- Salira Ethernet Simple, Fiber Fast ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5751 Patrick Henry Drive Santa Clara, California 95054 Phone: (408)-855-8860x121 Email: ADeFaria@Salira.com Web: http://www.salira.com Andrew DeFaria Clearcase Administrator Email: Andrew@DeFaria.com Home http://www.defaria.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/