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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:24:29 -0600
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On 9/19/2013 19:15, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 9/19/2013 12:16 PM, Rob Siklos wrote:
>>
>> My current solution is to just mount it in fstab with the following line:
>>
>>    c:/Users /home ntfs binary,posix=0,nouser
>
> Alternatively, you can set HOME in your
> Windows environment to point to the directory you want as your home.

Or, change the second-to-last item in /etc/passwd to something like 
/cygdrive/c/Users/rob.

Remapping c:\Users to /home is obviously more scalable, but do you 
really have lots of local users on that box?

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