Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: NEWBIE: Problem with $Home being set to /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE% Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:50:39 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Harig, Mark A." To: "Michael Caplan" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id gAFGorQ20976 > 2. Have you recently changed the contents of /etc/passwd? > > No > > What are the permissions and ownership of this file? > > -rwx------ 1 Administ None 658 Sep 16 13:37 /etc/passwd* > Check the last two fields of your entry in /etc/passwd. > What are the permissions and ownership of '/etc'? > > drwx------ 16 Administ None 8192 Nov 14 12:35 etc/ > Change the permissions of /etc to 755. -- 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/