gabier wrote: > > 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. > ... > I created a home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I am in it. > But mintty still opens in its own link directory. > Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two sources for the definition of home: the HOME environment variable, and the entry in /etc/passwd. I have myself:
~> id uid=1000(marc) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users) ~> grep marc /etc/passwd | tr : '\n' marc unused 1000 513 U-sartre\marc,S-1-5-21-1848142070-2449128644-2827604881-1000 /home/marc /bin/bash ~> echo $HOME /home/marc Marc -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Installation-problems-with-home-path-and-sshd-tp32877343p32877392.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
