Changing the home directory ($HOME)
Jeremy Bopp
jeremy@bopp.net
Wed Mar 31 13:20:00 GMT 2010
Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Phil Couling <couling@gmail.com> was heard to say:
>
>> I have cygwin pre installed on a pc I'm using. I'd like to change the
>> home directory ($HOME) but I'm having some trouble finding where it's
>> been set. Currently it points to a drive letter q: . I'd much prefer
>> to point it at /home/username.
>
> /etc/profile says:
>
> # Here is how HOME is set, in order of priority, when starting from Windows
> # 1) From existing HOME in the Windows environment, translated to a
> Posix path
> # 2) from /etc/passwd, if there is an entry with a non empty directory
> field
> # 3) from HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH
> # 4) / (root)
>
> I've used #1.
You should also investigate the mkpasswd and mkgroup commands. Those
can be used to populate your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
-Jeremy
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