Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:52:18 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1] Message-ID: <20021127015218.GA1087241@HPN5170X> Mail-Followup-To: "Pierre A. Humblet" , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000701c2934b$24f59620$b17b1f3e@leper> <87el99e9h8.fsf@blarg.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87el99e9h8.fsf@blarg.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 -- 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/