Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42531365.2010303@cs.caltech.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:38:29 -0700 From: Pat Cahalan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew DeFaria Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Overriding the default HOME priority settings References: <42530114.90501@cs.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes > 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, without giving up the native Windows installations. VMWare and Linux isn't a solution for everybody, since they also want a decent shell environment in Windows (and let's face it the Windows command line lacks elegance). Since the portables aren't always connected to the network (and oftentimes are connected outside of our SMB/NFS export range when they *are* on the network), they need to have a local $HOME, even when they're logging into their portable using cached domain credentials. > 2. Change the master /etc/profile to get/set $HOME from /etc/passwd > (that is the symlinked master /etc/passwd). I'll have to have /etc/profile local to the machine in question, but to clarify, this method will override the domain map as the "first preference"? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/