Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/03/09:10:18
I've run into this problem as well on Windows 2000 after my upgrade yesterday.
I'm getting around it by unsetting HOME in /etc/profile (as the first
line), so /etc/profile will do what it has been doing in the past
(important for 1st time users on our team).
A side effect, I'm fairly certain, my Id changed as well. My home was
always /home/Administrator (the user on the machine); even though I log on
to a domain. 'id -un' formerly returned Administrator??? I created a
symbolic link (ln -s /home/Adminstrator /home/jmarcel).
So, potentially two issues:
1) HOME is set to /;
2) Id is now that of my domain (jmarcel:unknown), and I think it was
Administrator:none (which I'm less concerned with, as our machines are
single user laptops/clients);
Joe
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>From: Eric Hanchrow <offby1 AT blarg DOT net>
>Subject: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]
>Date: 25 Nov 2002 11:26:59 -0800
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>For what it's worth, I too had this problem on Windows 2000, but I was
>able to work around it by putting
>
> set HOME=/home/Administrator
>
>into my cygwin.bat.
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>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:52:18 -0500
>From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]
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>On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:26:59AM -0800, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> > For what it's worth, I too had this problem on Windows 2000, but I was
> > able to work around it by putting
>
>Is it the case that your passwd file does not contain sids, i.e. wasn't
>built with mkpasswd, and does not contain either a line starting with your
>Windows username?
>If so, I would recommend running mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd (backup the
>passwd file first; use mkpasswd -d -l if you are a domain user),
>and edit your entry as you like it.
>If not so, please send me the outputs of "id" and "strace true".
>
>Pierre
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