On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:40:15 -0700 (PDT), Ray typed: > Hi, > I've been reading the FAQ's and searching through the archives, but > am > not able to find a way to make the current user's home directory go > outside of \cygwin\home. > > More specifically, I would like to have more control of user home > locations for backup and recovery puposes. Could anyone give some > insight into how to place the users' home directories outside of > \cygwin\home? Mapping to another drive would be preferable.
I think you can redefine the home directory for a user in in /etc/passwd. It is the next-to-last field in the record (The last field is the user's default shell). -- Matthew O. Persico -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
