$HOME Directory Relocation

[Andrew DeFaria]

Michael A Chase wrote:
 >> Since no login occurs, place it in your batch file calling bash, or in
 >> /etc/profile like I do. Here is my /etc/profile that correct many such
 >> environment variable problems I found over the time:

 > The problem with setting HOME to a fixed value in cygwin.bat or
 > /etc/profile is that limits your cygwin installation to a single user.
 > That's why the default /etc/profile allows $HOME to be passed
 > through from the user's Windows environment.

I never understood this about the default /etc/profile. If I run a 
mkpasswd -d (since I'm in a domain) I see the home field properly 
formatted from the NT domain controller (except I change it to 
/home/$USER and use a mount for /home under Cygwin). Thus my 
/etc/profile is:

USER="`id -un`"
HOME=`grep ^$USER: /etc/passwd | cut -f6 -d:`
SHELL=`grep ^$USER: /etc/passwd | cut -f7 -d:`

# Set up USER's home directory
if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
  echo "WARNING: HOME not set! Defaulting to /home/$USER."
  HOME="/home/$USER"
fi

if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
  echo "WARNING: HOME directory did not exist! Logging in with HOME = /tmp"
  HOME="/tmp"
fi

export HOME USER SHELL


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