Re: Home dir is "/"

I've seen this as well, particularly on Win2K systems at work where you use domain credentials to log into your machine. Here's what I did to fix it (at the cygwin bash prompt): $ mkpasswd -d -u myusername >> /etc/passwd The mkpasswd command creates entries intended for /etc/passwd. The "-d" mea

Home dir is "/"

I've installed cygwin 1.3.18-1 on an XP system and found it set my home dir as "/" instead of /home/ like it normally does. Within cygwin, I see that /home isn't even there. Even after making my homedir, it still still puts me at root when I launch a shell. I noted that I am not in /etc/passwd as w