OK, so either HOME is set in your Windows environment to this, it's set this way in your /etc/passwd, or your user ID isn't in /etc/passwd. Unset HOME in our Windows environment and/or run mkpasswd as appropriate for your environment. Change the home directory there to be what you want/need if you're still getting the "wrong" thing. In this case, that would be because you're getting the home defined in your Windows profile.
Larry
Bill Pfeiffer wrote:
When I start cygwin from the installed cygwin batch file, it uses C:\Documents and Settings\username (where username is my current logged in windows username) as my home directory. As I stated before, I can change it by modifying the HOME env var in the batch file, but this doesn't seem like a good long term solution.
Thanks,
Bill
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bill Pfeiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Windows home path
Bill Pfeiffer wrote:
Anyone know why the latest cygwin uses a path with spaces in it (C:\Documents and Settings\username) for its home when it doesn't
support
spaces in paths?
Where exactly do you see this path being used?
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