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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: "news.gmane.org" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Strange bash login behaviour -- no home directory Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:53:53 -0500 Lines: 22 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.13.67.97 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016067175 14150 216.13.67.97 (14 Mar 2002 00:52:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:52:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 I'm using the ntsec option of CYGWIN, on a freshly installed version of cygwin that was downloaded today. I've used mkgroup and mkpasswd to include domain entities (including me) in /etc/group and /etc/passwd. When I start cygwin ("bash --login -i" from the default cygwin.bat), I'm recognized as being logged in with my proper user id, but my home directory (as reflected by $HOME) is "/cygdrive/c", even though /etc/passwd clearly defines my home directory as "/home/paul.galbraith". If I "login" from within the bash shell, $HOME is then set properly and I'm dumped into my home directory! Does anyone know why I have to login from the shell in order to get $HOME set properly? Cheers, Paul -- 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/