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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:44:42 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: How and where is HOME set from /etc/passwd?
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Greetings, Andrew DeFaria!

> According to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home if not 
> set in the Windows environment then the entry in /etc/password should be 
> used. Where is this accomplished? Because I'm not seeing it happen. 
> Instead /etc/profile is invoked and HOME is set to nothing and 
> /etc/profile tries to create a directory of no name and fails.

Use mkpasswd (and mkgroup, as well) to generate proper /etc/passwd and
/etc/group


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 25.02.2012, <03:43>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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