On May 5 09:23, Fedin Pavel wrote: > On 05.05.2012 7:06, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > >I'm at a loss as to why it's looking in the root directory. > > Look at your /etc/passwd. Here, on my machine,home directory is > empty for my username. Perhaps mkpasswd's bug. You can fix it by > manually setting the right path in /etc/passwd.
Indeed, that's a bug in mkpasswd I introduced in December. I don't know what I was thinking when I made the change, but it results in the following misbehaviour: If you run mkpasswd with the -c option to generate an entry for the current user, and if $HOME is set at the time, then mkpasswd misses to print the value of $HOME, and the generated passwd entry keeps empty. I fixed that in CVS for now, but I'm wondering if that doesn't qualify for a new Cygwin release... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
