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Re: Proper "$HOME" setup? (/home or My Documents)
- From: David Rothenberger <d dot roth at gte dot net>
- To: Chris Bailey <chris at codeintensity dot com>
- Cc: Cygwin mailing list <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:35:08 -0800
- Subject: Re: Proper "$HOME" setup? (/home or My Documents)
- References: <ABEIIICMAOMJLCHAGHOFOELFCKAA.chris@codeintensity.com>
I would use the mount command to mount "My Documents" at /home/crb
(after first running mkdir -p /home/crb). That way, you don't need to
move anything.
Chris Bailey wrote:
>
> I checked the FAQ but didn't see anything on this (and did some mailing list
> searches, but didn't find it, hopefully it hasn't been covered already, or
> if so, point me to those if you please)...
>
> I have cygwin installed on a Windows 2000 machines. When I fire up bash, it
> has $HOME set to the "My Documents" folder for my user. But, /etc/passwd
> shows my home as /home/crb. And, when I use ssh, it says it can't create
> /home/crb/.ssh. There is no /home in my cygwin setup. So, my question is,
> should I create that, and move my .bashrc from My Documents into /home/crb,
> and then set a Win2k environment variable HOME to /home/crb? Or, is ok to
> use My Documents and I just tweak /etc/passwd, or???? What is the "ideal"
> setup?
>
> ____
> Chris Bailey mailto:chris@codeintensity.com
> Code Intensity http://www.codeintensity.com
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