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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 23:07:48 +0530
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Subject: Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden
From: Soumya Roy <roy DOT valmont AT gmail DOT com>
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Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:-

/home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash
VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\
8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash

thanks

On 8/2/12, Soumya Roy <roy DOT valmont AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> first of all I'm not a 'knows the ins and outs' user of
> cygwin(although I absolutely love using it and would like to become
> one!!).
> My problems began(I think) when I installed heroku toolbelt for
> facebook app creation...I went through some initial hiccups(with ssh
> etc) and had to solve them (while working with cmd.exe).
> Well my life went fine until later on I fired up cygwin and realized
> that my intial directory has now been changed from
> "c:/cygwin/home/username" to "c:/Documents and Settings/username"...
> I "tried" to fix the problem by googling around(mkpasswd and all that)
> and I think I've made the problem no better(if not worse)....
> I really need some help guys.
> Thanks.
>

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