Mark,
Thanks for the reply. To answer your questions:
1. What does the command 'id' report? Or, 'id -un'?
$ id
uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None)
groups=513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users)
$ id -un
Administrator
2. Have you recently changed the contents of /etc/passwd?
No
What are the permissions and ownership of this file?
-rwx------ 1 Administ None 658 Sep 16 13:37 /etc/passwd*
What are the permissions and ownership of '/etc'?
drwx------ 16 Administ None 8192 Nov 14 12:35 etc/
3. What bash initialization files are you using,
/etc/profile,
Have you checked their permissions and ownership?
They are fine.
As far as I can tell, one issue lies within /etc/profile. In the following
passage, $HOME is already set to /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE% and therefore does
not get set to /home/$USER :
# Set up USER's home directory
if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
HOME="/home/$USER"
fi
Removing the if -z check resolves the issue. Where do you suppose bash
picked up the variable $HOME=/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE% ? My windows
environmental variables suggest nothing of the sort.
Thanks,
Michael
PS - Sorry about sending the output of env within my last message.
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