Strange bash login behaviour -- no home directory

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I Just figured it out less than sixty seconds after sending that post (I
wish it always worked that way!!!).

I had $HOME defined in my windows environment (for some strange reason) to
be C:\.  Deleting that system environment variable solved the problem.

Paul

"news.gmane.org" <paul.galbraith@t4g.com> wrote in message
news:a6os96$dq6$1@main.gmane.org...
> I'm using the ntsec option of CYGWIN, on a freshly installed version of
> cygwin that was downloaded today.
>
> I've used mkgroup and mkpasswd to include domain entities (including me)
in
> /etc/group and /etc/passwd.
>
> When I start cygwin ("bash --login -i" from the default cygwin.bat), I'm
> recognized  as being logged in with my proper user id, but my home
directory
> (as reflected by $HOME) is "/cygdrive/c", even though /etc/passwd clearly
> defines my home directory as "/home/paul.galbraith".
>
> If I "login" from within the bash shell, $HOME is then set properly and
I'm
> dumped into my home directory!
>
> Does anyone know why I have to login from the shell in order to get $HOME
> set properly?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
>
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