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


Greetings, Yves!

> 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...

Check the contents of your $HOME variable.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 22.01.2013, <20:31>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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