Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <008e01c1ae8f$d8d6d9c0$0200000a@gregmo> From: "Greg Mosier" To: References: <15456.19079.804940.878644@montreal.crt.umontreal.ca> <054201c1ae8b$c750e820$0d00a8c0@mchasecompaq> Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:55:36 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 From: "Michael A Chase" Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation > The problem with setting HOME to a fixed value in cygwin.bat or /etc/profile > is that limits your cygwin installation to a single user. That's why the > default /etc/profile allows $HOME to be passed through from the user's > Windows environment. Ummm, I set this up in /etc/profile, defined several users, had then connect through telnetd, and it worked fine. Matter of fact, without this setup in /etc/profile, when you telnet in your $HOME is set to: / Cheers, Greg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/