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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:25:02 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Install puts home in /c/Users
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On Oct 18 15:07, Csaba wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Lee Savidge  wrote:
> > I've been using cygwin for many years simply because of the number of
> > tools it gives me that Windows simply doesn't have or doesn't do very
> > well. A while ago my install of cygwin suddely changed my home
> > directory from
> >
> > /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/myuseraccount
> >
> > to
> >
> > /cygdrive/c/users/mywindowsuser
> >
> (snip)
> >
> > Firstly, why? Why make my cygwin home directory use the same folder
> > that Windows uses which is full of a load of stuff that Windows needs
> > to keep?
>=20
> Presumably because that's the place for _your_ stuff, and you are sure
> to have write rights.
>=20
> > Secondly, how can I put it back as it used to be so that when I opened
> > bash it defaulted to my home directory which was mapped to
> >
> > /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/home/myuseraccount
>=20
>=20
> I had this happen to me at work ($HOME pointed to a network drive
> instead of C:\cygwin\home\...) and IIRC the solution was to unset the
> %HOMEDRVE% and %HOMEDIR% environment variables before installing.

What about just editing the home dir in your /etc/passwd entry?


Corinna

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