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From: Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>
To: "'a12'" <a12 AT swipnet DOT se>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Default home dir: /cygdrive/c
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:15:57 +0100
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do you have HOME set as a windows environment variable ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: a12 [mailto:a12 AT swipnet DOT se]
> Sent: 30 May 2003 14:10
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Default home dir: /cygdrive/c
> 
> 
> Hi gurus,
> 
> After installing successfully Cygwin on several NT4/2K hosts, I
> have encountered a strange problem:
> isoft AT nrm8_1 ~
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/c
> 
> instead of: /home/isoft
> 
> Why ?
> 
> Cygwin was installed using Windows user isoft, that belongs to
> Administrators group.
> 
> A simple check of CYGWIN and PATH yields:
> echo %CYGWIN%
> binmode ntsec tty title
> echo %PATH%
> C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;c:\cygwin\bin
> 
> /etc/group contains:
> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
> None:S-1-5-21-1476268339-1210066731-1381041710-513:513:
> Admins:S-1-5-32-544:544:
> Backup:S-1-5-32-551:551:
> Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
> Power:S-1-5-32-547:547:
> Replica:S-1-5-32-552:552:
> Users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
> 
> /etc/passwd contains:
> SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
> Admins:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> Administrator:*:1003:513:Fiktiv,U-NRM8_1\Administrator,S-1-5-2
> 1-1476268339-1210066731-1381041710-1003:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
> 
> isoft:*:1001:513:isoft,U-NRM8_1\isoft,S-1-5-21-1476268339-1210
> 066731-1381041710-1001:/home/isoft:/bin/bash
> 
> $ cd cygwin
> ls -l
> total 2
> drwxr-xr-x    2 isoft    Admins          0 May 30 13:45 bin
> drwxr-xr-x    8 isoft    Admins          0 May 30 13:44 etc
> drwxr-xr-x    4 isoft    Admins          0 May 30 13:45 lib
> drwxr-xr-x    2 isoft    Admins          0 May 30 13:45 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x   16 isoft    Admins          0 May 30 13:45 usr
> drwxr-xr-x    6 isoft    Admins          0 May 30 13:45 var
> 
> Please note that in other hosts 'ls -l' yields:
> drwxr-xr-x    2 Admins   none            0 May 30 13:45 bin
> drwxr-xr-x    8 Admins   none            0 May 30 13:44 etc
> drwxr-xr-x    4 Admins   none            0 May 30 13:45 lib
> drwxr-xr-x    2 Admins   none            0 May 30 13:45 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x   16 Admins   none            0 May 30 13:45 usr
> drwxr-xr-x    6 Admins   none            0 May 30 13:45 var
> 
> The result of 'cygcheck -svr' is found in the attached file
> cygcheck.out
> 

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