Win2k cygwin.bat bash unable to find 'cygwin root' profile

["Richard V. Molen" <rvmolen at bambecksystems dot com>]

Greetings,

The Cygwin package is a pretty cool concept, but I'm just getting 
started with it. Although I expect this is a common problem, I was 
unable to find an answer after several hours in the documentation nor in 
the mailing list archives, nor after trying some things.

Question: why does bash work under Administrator, but not under my 
normal Win2k login (on the same machine)?

Problem: Installed Cygwin as Administrator using setup.exe on a Win2K 
box, selected 'all users' so access would be available via a Power User 
login.  When logged in as Administrator, executing cygwin.bat starts 
'bash' by finding the 'profile' in the 'etc' directory.   However, when 
logged in via the Power User login 'ricm', the profile is not found.

Details: Win2k SP1, cygwin version 2.78.2.3, GNU Emacs 20.7.1
  - Power user login 'ricm', administrator login 'administrator'
  - Environment overview: variables in both logins look the same with the
     exception of HOME.  HOME was set initially to d:\ric for Emacs init 
file.
  - cygwin root = d:\cygwin
  - Administrator login created d:\cygwin\home\Administrator directory

Tried: moving 'profile' to d:\ric.  Changing HOME to d:\cygwin\home\ricm 
after creating manually.

from sample session to get environment variables via bash with 'ricm' login:

C:\Documents and Settings\ricm\Desktop>rem @echo off

C:\Documents and Settings\ricm\Desktop>D:

D:\>chdir \cygwin\bin

D:\cygwin\bin>bash --login -i
bash-2.05$ /usr/bin/env
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
PROMPT=$P$G
QSSL_TARGET=d:\qnxsdk\QNX\Neutrino\usr\nto
PWD=/usr/bin
LOGONSERVER=\\RIC
OS2LIBPATH=C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
COMSPEC=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
!C:=C:\Documents and Settings\ricm\Desktop
QSSL_HOST=d:\qnxsdk\QNX\Neutrino
SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
HOSTNAME=RIC
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0201
!D:=D:\cygwin\bin
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
COMPUTERNAME=RIC
WINDIR=C:\WINNT
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\ricm
PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
MACHTYPE=i686-pc-cygwin
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 2 Stepping 1, AuthenticAMD
OS=Windows_NT
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
TEMP=/DOCUME~1/ricm/LOCALS~1/Temp
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINNT
TMP=/DOCUME~1/ricm/LOCALS~1/Temp
HOMEDRIVE=C:
ROSERT_HOST=win32
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
SHLVL=1
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\ricm\Application Data
COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
HOMEPATH=\
USERDOMAIN=RIC
USERNAME=ricm
SHELL=/bin/sh
HOSTTYPE=i686
OSTYPE=cygwin
HOME=/cygdrive/d/ric
TERM=cygwin
PATH=/WINNT/system32:/WINNT:/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/d/Program 
Files/Ratio
nal/Rose RealTime/6.1/bin/win32:/Program 
Files/Rational/common:/cygdrive/d/Ratio
nal/common:/cygdrive/d/Rational/Rose RealTime/bin/win32
ROSERT_HOME=D:\Rational\Rose RealTime
_=/usr/bin/env
bash-2.05$


from setup.log
2001/07/26 16:40:59 Starting cygwin install, version 2.78.2.3
Current Directory: D:\ric\own\download\tools\cygwin
source: download
Selected local directory: D:\ric\own\download\tools\cygwin
net: Direct
site: ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin
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mbox note: Download Complete
2001/07/26 17:49:16 Ending cygwin install

-- 
Richard V. Molen
Sr. Software Engineer
Bambeck Systems, Inc.
rvmolen@bambecksystems.com
(949) 250-3100 ext. 115



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