Cygwin installing into wrong directory

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Chuck wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> On 29 August 2006 16:09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chuck wrote:
>>>>> [ ... ] Then I noticed that it created my user home directory in
>>>>> "c:\documents and settings\userid". I wanted it in "c:\cygwin\home"
>>>>> where it was before. What happened and how can I move it. I do NOT want
>>>>> it cluttering up "documents and settings".
>>>>  [ ... ]    If you must, you can also set HOME in your
>>>> Windows environment to the directory you want.  When Cygwin starts,
>>>> it will use this value to override all others set.
>>>   Isn't the probably the underlying reason why the home dirs were
>>> created in
>>> documents and settings in the first place, i.e. does the machine
>>> already have
>>> HOME set in its environment variables?
>>
>> Not necessarily.  Windows typically sets HOMEDIRVE and HOMEPATH but not
>> HOME.
>> The doc-o-settings path is typically the same as these variables but can
>> also come from the domain server. In environments with domains, the home
>> directory is set by the domain and, I believe, the HOMEDRIVE and
>> HOMEPATH get
>> set to the domain's designation on login.
>>
>>
> 
> This is indeed a domain environment, and HOME is not set as a windows
> environment variable. I'm still not certain why it set my home directory
> to "c:/Documents and Settings/MyUserID/". Does it use HOMEPATH if HOME
> is not set? This is what it's set to.
> 
> HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\CHamilto


See '/etc/profile' for a description of how Cygwin sets HOME.  But I expect
if you check the domain settings for your user, you will see this path is
set as your home directory.


> In any case it was relatively easy to change by just editing the passwd
> file with wordpad and saving it. All that got written to the wrong
> directory was my bash_history file.


Be careful that wordpad didn't add CRLF to the end of the lines though.


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