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Re: Cygwin home dir=/cygwin/c (not /home/<userid>)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: a12 <a12 at swipnet dot se>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:48:19 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin home dir=/cygwin/c (not /home/<userid>)
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, a12 wrote:
> Hello,
> I have just installed the latest Cygwin release on one PC.
The two issues you mention are unrelated. See below.
> It is up and running OK, except that all local users login into
> /cygdrive/c instead of /home/<userid>.
Do you have the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files? If you do, are any of
the local users in /etc/passwd? What is their home directory set to?
Try rebuilding your /etc/passwd and /etc/group:
$ for i in (/etc/passwd /etc/group); do mv $i ${i}-backup; done
$ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
$ mkgroup -l > /etc/group
and see if you still get that problem.
> The length of PATH in DOS is 97 characters, and in cygwin 148
> characters:
>
> Path=C:\WINNT\System32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Centura2.0\;C:\cygwin\bin
>
> 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
>
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:Path=C:/WINNT/System32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Centura2.0/:/usr/bin
>
> What have I missed ?
The fact that Cygwin translates the Windows path to a POSIX path using the
mount information. Also the fact that you have "Path=" as part of the
VALUE of the PATH variable.
Igor
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