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From: "Vorst, Jan van der" <JVorst AT nedcar DOT nl>
To: "'Pavel Tsekov'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: No home directory on fresh setup
Date:  Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:43:01 +0100
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Hello Pavel,

thanks a lot!
Sorry for the noise I've made, 
Jan van der Vorst

> ----------
> From: 	Pavel Tsekov[SMTP:ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com]
> Reply To: 	Pavel Tsekov
> Sent: 	Thursday 21 February 2002 15:18
> To: 	Vorst, Jan van der
> Subject: 	Re: No home directory on fresh setup
> 
> Hello Jan,
> 
> Thursday, February 21, 2002, 2:50:36 PM, you wrote:
> 
> VJvd> A fresh installation of the latest cygwin results in no home
> directory. One
> VJvd> enters in /usr/bin/<user>. 
> 
> This problem is not new and it's already fixed in CVS sources. It's
> specific to Win9x/ME installations only.
> 
> For more details:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01903.html
> 
> If you intend to add new users (via mkpasswd) to your current
> installation, have in mind that the mkpasswd program should be
> passed the -p or --path-to-home option in order to add the
> appropriate entry in /etc/passwd.
> 
> 
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