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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Ken Senior wrote:

> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
> > Ken Senior wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > Some packages (SSH) think the home page should be /home/senior
> > > whereas the default bash shell thinks it's located in
> > > /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/senior.DOMAIN.
> >
> > This is not surprising.  You set HOME in your environment to point to
> > '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/senior.DOMAIN'.  That's the path
> > you will see as your home if you log in locally.  ssh finds your path
> > in '/etc/passwd' and I'm sure you'll find it listed there as
> > '/home/senior'. Change this with an editor or see the options to
> > 'mkpasswd'.  Or remove/ rename the environment variable.  It's
> > probably easiest to remove the variable, since everything will then
> > look to '/etc/passwd'
>
> As I mentioned before, I have *two* entries in /etc/passwd, one
> corresponding to my "senior" account on the local system and one
> corresponding to the domain account.

And therein lies the crux of your problem.  When asked for the parameters
of the user 'senior', Cygwin will find the first entry.  Therefore, you
will end up with the parameters (home directory, login shell, etc) for the
local user, even if you're logged in as the domain one.

> I've had some really strange behavior as a result.  I was able to rsync
> from the windows box to itself only to discover that the the files that
> managed to copy were not readable by the login that issued the rsync.
>
> senior:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:U-ROMULUS\senior,S-1-5-21-484763869-1563985344-682003330-1003:/home/senior:/bin/bash
> senior:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11112:10545:senior,U-SPACEAPPS\senior,S-1-5-21-893714851-1888236101-3871409848-1112:/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/senior.SPACEAPPS.000:/bin/bash

The good news is that the Cygwin username doesn't need to be the same as
the Windows/domain one (neither does the user id matter -- only the SID
field, the one that starts with "S-", matters).  So you can change either
the local or the domain username to whatever you wish, and this should
help cure some of the problems you're seeing.
HTH,
	Igor
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