On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 11:23:47AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: > Tim Largy wrote: > > What are most people using as > > their home directories, and from the multitudinous ways of setting it, > > what is the preferred method? > > The Cygwin default home dir is /home/username. Did you change it > deliberately, or did you have a HOME variable in your environment, from some > other program?
Actually mkpasswd tries using the home directory specified by Windows (if any) and only defaults to /home/username if needed. > Try to avoid having spaces in directory names. In an ideal world, it > shouldn't matter, but it unfortunately there are too many scripts with poor > quoting out there. There was another thread yesterday on a similar subject. Opinions vary between having 2 separate directories for Windows and cygwin, a common directory (as you do), or a Cygwin home that points to the Windows home through a symbolic link or a mount point, etc... Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
