Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <004101c1b1ff$def59da0$6fc82486@medschool.dundee.ac.uk>
Reply-To: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>
From: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>
To: <brasse AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Cc: <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: home directory problems
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 06:55:05 -0000
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 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

Yes. You are probably installing on W98? I believe the problem has been
identified and solved in principle and (presumably?) the solution will at
some stage be implemented. For the moment you can get round things as
follows:

    mkdir /home/{yourname}

and move anything there that you need to, in the way of your own
.bash_profile, .bashrc, .inputrc, etc. (There may be none of these; but
whatever's currently in /usr/bin/{yourname}/ is probably specific to you.
When I experienced this problem, /usr/bin/{myname}/ was empty.)

Then edit the file /etc/passwd which probably looks something like this

             {yourname}::500:544::{yourname}:/bin/bash

to this:

             {yourname}::500:544::/home/{yourname}:/bin/bash


If you then close Cygwin and then start it up again everything should work
fine.

Fergus


--
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/