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Re: Trouble with home
- From: Erik Weibust <eweibust at yahoo dot com>
- To: Robert Pollard <rpollard at apple dot com>, Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:09:13 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Trouble with home
- Reply-to: erik at weibust dot net
Have you tried "hard-coding" the $HOME you want for the user in the
/etc/passwd? That worked for me.
Erik Weibust
http://erik.weibust.net
--- Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am installing Cygwin on a Win2K3 server and it absolutely refuses
> to
> create a home directory under the Cygwin directory. All my other
> installations have created a home directory under Cygwin.
>
> This is creating problems with some scripts I wrote because the home
> is
> in "Documents and Settings..." instead of /home...
>
> Is there a way to force it to create the home directory in Cygwin or
> do
> I have to accept it as is? BTW, the login is a domain user instead
> of
> a local user. This is the only difference I know between other
> installations and this one.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Robert
>
>
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