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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:37:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Erik Weibust <eweibust AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: strange install problems
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Larry,

Thanks for all the help.  Sorry to keep beating this
subject down, but I hope this can be my last question.

What problems will I have with simply changing the
path for my home dir in /etc/passwd?

Do I have to use the mkpasswd cmd that you showed
below?

Thanks,
Erik

--- Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> At 12:58 PM 4/7/2004, you wrote:
> >> >2.  Shouldn't cygwin use something like
> >> $My_Documents
> >> >as it's home?  This is mostly on a local drive
> for
> >> all
> >> >windows installs.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Cygwin uses for your home directory whatever
> Windows
> >> says
> >> is your home directory.   Cygwin gets this from
> >> '/etc/passwd'.  
> >> If you do a 'mkpasswd -d -u <your user name>',
> >> you'll see 
> >> what Cygwin will use as your home directory, as
> set
> >> by the 
> >> administrator of your domain.  If you don't want
> >> that, use
> >> the '-p' option.
> >
> >How exactly do I use the "-p" option?
> >
> >mkpasswd -p <my user name>
> 
> 
> mkpasswd -l -d -u <your user name> -p <path to the
> parent directory of your 
> user directory>
> 
> i.e. mkpasswd -l -d -u erik -p /home
> 
> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> >3.  Does cygwin not build a /home/$USERNAME
> >> dir/path
> >> >as part of it's install?  I did a complete
> install
> >> and
> >> >expected it.  Before I uninstalled my previous
> >> cygwin
> >> >install (which was installed a year ago) I did
> have
> >> a
> >> >/home/$USER dir and that is what I backed up.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I think you're looking for this explanation:
> >> 
> >>
>
><http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00111.html>
> >> 
> >> or see '/etc/profile'.  '/etc/profile' makes your
> >> home
> >> directory if it doesn't exist. 
> >> 
> >> >4.  If the answer to number 3 is No.  Can I just
> >> >create a /home/$USER and copy my old /home/user
> >> there?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Sure.  Copy it where you like and need it.  Make
> >> Cygwin 
> >> see it where ever you want if the one it gets
> from
> >> Windows
> >> isn't to your liking.
> >
> >Your comment "Make Cygwin see it where ever you
> want"
> >is vague.  How do I do that?
> 
> 
> Just make sure that the home directory in
> /etc/passwd is 
> pointing to where you want it.  See above.
> 
> 
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