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On Jul 24 20:00, ScKaSx wrote:
> I just installed Cygwin and found that my home directory is defined by
> Windows HOME environment variable.
> 
> My question is how I can change my cygwin home directory without changing
> the Windows HOME variable, in other words to use /etc/mkpasswd?

Remove the $HOME variable from your Windows environment.  Note that $HOME
is *not* a typical Windows environment variable.  Windows itself only
uses $HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH.  If $HOME is set in your Windows env,
you either did it by yourself at one point, or you installed some third
part software which meddled with the Windows environment.


Corinna

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