Changing Home Directory

[Jason Curl]

On 25/7/2011 05:00, ScKaSx wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I just installed Cygwin and found that my home directory is defined by
> Windows HOME environment variable.
>
> My question is how I can change my cygwin home directory without changing
> the Windows HOME variable, in other words to use /etc/mkpasswd?
>
> Cheers!

I had this problem regularly when working with Active Directory domains. 
I wanted everything kept in c:\cygwin\home for portability.

To do this, I just modified the file "/etc/passwd" to provide a new 
cygwin path.

Regards,
Jason.


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