/etc/profile /etc/passwd and HOME
Mathew Boorman
mathew.boorman@au.cmg.com
Fri Oct 26 00:14:00 GMT 2001
After installing on 2000 where my account has a default HOMEDRIVE setup, I
did the cygwin install.
mkpasswd automatically setup the home field in /etc/passwd correctly, but it
did not work.
I found /etc/profile does not check that but instead only checks for an
existing HOME. It does not check for a value in /etc/passwd.
The following change worked for me, but it assumes that /etc/passwd exists.
Any comments?
# Set up USER's home directory
+# try and get it from /etc/passwd
+if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
+ HOME=`grep mat /etc/passwd | cut --delimiter=: --fields=6`
+fi
+
+# fallback if HOME was not set in /etc/passwd
if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
HOME="/home/$USER"
fi
If OK and so requested I will figure out how to do a real patch.
m@
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