Subject: Re: Cygwin home dir=/cygwin/c (not /home/<userid>)
From: Andrew DeFaria <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 09:19:10 -0800

a12 wrote:

> Pierre,
>
> 'echo %HOME%' yields 'C:\'
>
> Modifying /etc/profile:
> # Set up USER's home directory
> # 020102 magr40 force to use /home/$USER
> #if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
> HOME="/home/$USER"
> #fi
> solves my problem, but is it the correct way to do it ?
>
My solution is the following:

HOME=`grep ^$USER: /etc/passwd | cut -f6 -d:`
SHELL=`grep ^$USER: /etc/passwd | cut -f7 -d:`

# Set up USER's home directory
if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
  echo "WARNING: HOME not set! Defaulting to /home/$USER."
  HOME="/home/$USER"
fi

if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
  echo "WARNING: HOME directory did not exist! Logging in with HOME = /tmp"
  HOME="/tmp"
fi

This sets HOME and SHELL as per /etc/passwd, which, IMHO, is better.

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