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Subject: Re: 1.5.25: Can't Change User's Home Dir [SOLVED]
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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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