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Subject: Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?
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Hi, thanks for your reply.

I did cat /etc/passwd.  I obfuscated certain portions of the output, all of
which are characters (no numbers, no spaces, no special characters, all
lower case):

<user name>@FOOBAR /home/<user name>/Downloads
$ cat /etc/passwd
SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19::
NetworkService:*:20:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService,S-1-5-20::
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
TrustedInstaller:*:4294967294:4294967294:U-NT
SERVICE\TrustedInstaller,S-1-5-80-956008885-3418522649-1831038044-1853292631-2271478464::
ashvets:unused:1003:513:<user name>,U-FOOBAR\<user
name>,S-1-5-21-1225255616-1463261690-3474574673-1003:/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/<user
name>:/bin/bash

I've set the home to /home/<user name> before, closed cygwin and opened it
again, no change.

I'd do pwd, see that I'm in /cygdrive/h, then I'd execute cd (no parameters,
just the command) and I'd be in /cygdrive/h again.  No idea why....



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