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 Message-ID: <60571.212.159.53.2.1101903943.squirrel@212.159.53.2> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:25:43 -0000 (GMT) Subject: RE: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space From: "John Morrison" To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Hi John, > > John Morrison wrote on Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:32 PM: >>> mkpasswd.exe -l -c | sed 's/cygdrive\/.*Documents and Settings/home/' >>> > /etc/passwd >>> >>> This is nonsense. "Documents and Settings" is localized. >> >> Humm, not nonsense (it works for English), maybe not >> correct... (is this retrievable for replacement?) > > May also not work for English, "cygdrive" is just a default value and is > settable. In case of my system: > > $ mount -p > Prefix Type Flags > /mnt system binmode > > You may *assume* it is called "cygdrive" for a new installation, but if > there are registry entries left from an old one ... > >> Anyway, the idea (if not the impl) stands, when a network >> user installs cygwin HOME is set to doc & settings. When a >> local user installs HOME is set to /home/user. So, should >> network user functionality be changed? (assuming it's >> possible to get the localisation) > > $ cygpath -H > > Personally I use a mount for home: > > $ mount > ... > C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen on /home type system (binmode) > ... > > But this is *my* preference only (and applies not for Win95, Win 98, Win > NT etc. anyway). Additionally in the pattern /home/user may not apply for > newer Win OSses also, since the user's profile directory may not have the > name of the user and unfortunately this information cannot be retrieved > from cygpath, you may read directly from the registry. Humm, OK - scratch that idea :) J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/