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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:18:46 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> Last time I checked, $HOME in newly installed Cygwin point to the $USERPROFILE
>> Which is, quite, logical.

> Just to be clear, that's not done by the Cygwin DLL.  When setting HOME,
> the order is very simple:

> - If $HOME is already set in the environment, leave it alone.
> - Otherwise, grab home dir from /etc/passwd.
> - If /etc/passwd doesn't exist or if the homedir field is empty,
>   set HOME to /home/$USER.

> If $HOME points to $USERPROFILE, it's because that value is set in
> /etc/passwd.  mkpasswd, for instance, reads the homedir path from the
> local SAM or AD and uses it, unless the -p option is used.

That explains it, thanks.

> Otherwise, if -p isn't used and the SAM/AD homedir is empty, the fallback is
> /home/$USER again.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 30.11.2011, <18:17>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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