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Re: Changing Home Directory
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:34:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: Changing Home Directory
- References: <32128822.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jul 24 20:00, ScKaSx wrote:
> I just installed Cygwin and found that my home directory is defined by
> Windows HOME environment variable.
>
> My question is how I can change my cygwin home directory without changing
> the Windows HOME variable, in other words to use /etc/mkpasswd?
Remove the $HOME variable from your Windows environment. Note that $HOME
is *not* a typical Windows environment variable. Windows itself only
uses $HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH. If $HOME is set in your Windows env,
you either did it by yourself at one point, or you installed some third
part software which meddled with the Windows environment.
Corinna
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