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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Setting $HOME for Windows Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:19:51 -0800 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <20041223173744 DOT GA752 AT home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: farscape.lynx.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) In-Reply-To: <20041223173744.GA752@home> X-IsSubscribed: yes George wrote: > I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually > setting $HOME as a Windows environment variable. > > I can't seem to find the message, so if someone can elaborate on why > this is A Bad Thing, I'd appreciate it. This is for those of us > pursuing the Holy Grail of integrating Cygwin with Windows (or, > depending on one's view, Windows with Cygwin), and doing our best to > ignore the less-than-holy %USERPROFILE% construct. Personally I believe I arranged for Cygwin's bash shell to utilize the actual home field in /etc/passwd (by changing /etc/profile). Next I mount to /home. In the corporate environment where home directories are often stored on a server this would be a mount -bsf //server/homeshare /home. Then ls /home lists all user's home directories and /etc/passwd says home = /home/$USER. At home I don't even use that silly C:\Documents and Settings\$USER crap and have successfully (though not easily) hacked the registry into using C:\Home\ and storing all configuration type data into C:\Home\\Configuration - but that's me... -- Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/