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On 10/23/2009 03:55 PM, paul DOT hermeneutic AT gmail DOT com wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:47, Dave Korn
> <dave DOT korn DOT cygwin AT googlemail DOT com>  wrote:
>>   The home dir won't just appear when you update mkpasswd; you have to start a
>> new shell, when the /etc/profile startup script notices your home dir setting
>> doesn't exist it'll kick of the creation process for you.
>>
>>   For the full explanation, see:
>> http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home
>
> Larry:

Huh?  Wait.  I'm ah... Oh, you meant the other Larry. ;-)

> Dave is right.  Creating a new shell is a much better way to get the
> home directory created.  Here is an excerpt from /etc./profile.
>
> 50 # If the home directory doesn't exist, create it.
> 51 if [ ! -d "${HOME}" ]; then
...

Maybe I missed this clarification for the OP in the intervening thread
messages but if HOME is actually set in the Windows environment, it
will override the home path set in '/etc/passwd'.  Starting a new shell
is certainly required to invoke the mechanism to create the home directory
and copy the skeleton files in but that won't happen unless the directory it
thinks is "home" doesn't exist.  If the Windows environment has $HOME
pointing to an existing directory, then the changes in '/etc/passwd' will be
transparent no matter what he does.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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