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Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?


On 1/22/2013 4:52 PM, Yves wrote:
Hi, this is my issue:

I start up cygwin and do pwd, and this is my home directory.
$ pwd
/cygdrive/h

But, I don't want it to be in /cygdrive/h.  So, what gives?  I've run the
mkpasswd command like so (while in my /home/<my name> directory):
mkpasswd -l -p "$(cygpath -H)" > /etc/passwd

At that point, I close my cygwin window and open it again... and same thing
when I run pwd.  How do I make cygwin think and start in /home/<my name>?
I've even mucked with the /etc/passwd for my user account and STILL no
result.
Very confused...

Dear Yves what is the output of $ grep <your name> /etc/passwd

on my case, as example:

$ grep  marco /etc/passwd
marco:unused:1008:544:Marco Atzeri,  [cut]  :/home/marco:/bin/bash

so /home/marco is my home directory

please note that cygpath -H is not the same
$ cygpath -H
/cygdrive/c/Users

Regards
Marco




Regards Marco

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