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From: "Abraham Backus" <abraham AT backus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Home dir is "/"
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:07:14 -0800
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I've seen this as well, particularly on Win2K systems at work where you use
domain credentials to log into your machine.

Here's what I did to fix it (at the cygwin bash prompt):
$ mkpasswd -d -u myusername >> /etc/passwd

The mkpasswd command creates entries intended for /etc/passwd.  The "-d"
means to get information from a domain (the default domain).  The "-u" means
to use the information for "myusername" in the given domain.

I hope this makes sense and helps.

-Abe

----- Original Message -----
> I've installed cygwin 1.3.18-1 on an XP system and
> found it set my home dir as "/" instead of
> /home/<NT_USERNAME> like it normally does. Within
> cygwin, I see that /home isn't even there. Even after
> making my homedir, it still still puts me at root when
> I launch a shell. I noted that I am not in /etc/passwd
> as well. Should I be? If this is common problem, could
> someone clue me in please?


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