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From: "Xanana Gusmao" <legolas_sindarin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Doesn't chdir to /home/foo when cygwin shell is started
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:12:39 +0800
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Igor,

> At a guess, your /etc/passwd does not contain the user you log in as
("foo" in your example),

Wrong. foo has an entry in the passwd file.

$ mkpass -l
----snip---
bonga:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:Xanana
Gusmao,neptune\foo,S-1-5-21-2000478354
-839522115-842925246-1002:/home/foo:/bin/bash

$ cygcheck -svr
---snip for brevity---
HOME = `c:\'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/'
USER = `foo'

Cygwin DLL version info:
    DLL version: 1.3.22
    DLL epoch: 19
    DLL bad signal mask: 19005
    DLL old termios: 5
    DLL malloc env: 28
    API major: 0
    API minor: 78
    Shared data: 3
    DLL identifier: cygwin1
    Mount registry: 2
    Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
    Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
    Program options name: Program Options
    Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
    Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
    Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
    Cygdrive default prefix:
    Build date: Tue Mar 18 09:20:11 EST 2003
    CVS tag: dontuse-21
    Shared id: cygwin1S3


Thanks

Xanana




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