Michael A Chase writes:
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| From: "Benoit Rochefort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: "Laurence F. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Cc: "Cygwin@Cygwin. Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 13:11
| Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation
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| > Since no login occurs, place it in your batch file calling bash, or in
| > /etc/profile like I do. Here is my /etc/profile that correct many such
| > environment variable problems I found over the time:
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| The problem with setting HOME to a fixed value in cygwin.bat or /etc/profile
| is that limits your cygwin installation to a single user. That's why the
| default /etc/profile allows $HOME to be passed through from the user's
| Windows environment.
That's exactly why I keep one "general" shortcut to cygwin and many
"specific" special shortcuts for "special" users (that's almost for testing
purpose and to be able to "emulate" another user uses that I have control
over; many of them have SAMBA mounted file system homes and by configuring
SAMBA correctly, I may read/write in there with correct permissions/uid/gid).
You can also change the line that sets HOME in my /etc/profile to the
following to get more flexibility:
: ${HOME=:"/home/$USER"}
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