placing ~ on a network mapped drive.

[The Persico Family]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:40:15 -0700 (PDT), Ray typed:
> Hi,
> I've been reading the FAQ's and searching through the archives, but
> am
> not able to find a way to make the current user's home directory go
> outside of \cygwin\home.
>
> More specifically, I would like to have more control of user home
> locations for backup and recovery puposes.  Could anyone give some
> insight into how to place the users' home directories outside of
> \cygwin\home?  Mapping to another drive would be preferable.

I think you can redefine the home directory for a user in  in /etc/passwd. It is the next-to-last field in the record (The last field is the user's default shell).
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Matthew O. Persico



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