I don't have any of /user /users /User /Users folders on my setup. Do you mean C:\Users ?
Even if I symlink it, won't that just change the location, but not the used usernames? As for /etc/passwd , I don't have that file. /etc/nsswitch.conf is empty (only comments). It is basically a fresh cygwin (64) installation with default settings. Regards, David On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 21:42, L A Walsh <cyg...@tlinx.org> wrote: > > On 2020/10/29 05:39, David Balažic via Cygwin wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I started Cygwin Terminal to find out, I landed in the other users > > home folder and have no write access. > > > ---- > I have the same username, but not the same "home" directory. > The user that signs in 1st gets the short name, the 2nd login gets > the domain or system name appended like > /users/linda/local-account > /users/linda.domain/domain account. > > Both of the user names have uniq windows UUID's and I have both in my > /etc/passwd. > > The two directories SHARE many of the same files -- so both my logins > are in a common 'local' group (like 'lindaGroup'), and since the machine > is in the domain, I can create a 'domain\lindagroup' and on my local > machine, both logins are in that group -- for that matter, the domain group > is also in the local group -- so theoretically I could just put both logins > in the domain group. > > Anwyay, it DOES work -- it just has to be configured right. > > So you say you got /home/joe for both -- but don't they have a /user > directory > that is different for each? > > just point your /home/=>/User, or if you really want them separate, then > have /home/joe point to /Users/joe/home, and the domain should get > joe.dom so /home/joe.dom => /Users/joe.dom/home. > > I started with my /home dir pointed at my the same dir as my /users dir, so > by default, windows separated them. > > Both my userid and username are different -- have 2 entries in /etc/passwd: > > Bliss\linda:*:5013:201:L A > Walsh,U-Bliss\linda,S-1-5-21-33333-77777-33333-5013:/Users/linda.Bliss:/bin/bash > linda:*:1000:1015:U-Athenae\linda,S-1-5-21-188-75-11-1000:/Users/linda:/bin/bash > > > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
