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From:	Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:	How and where is HOME set from /etc/passwd?
Date:	Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:33:12 -0800
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According to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home if not 
set in the Windows environment then the entry in /etc/password should be 
used. Where is this accomplished? Because I'm not seeing it happen. 
Instead /etc/profile is invoked and HOME is set to nothing and 
/etc/profile tries to create a directory of no name and fails.
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