home dir in cygwin

[Andrew W. Gaunt]

On my Windows 2K Domain controller 'users&computers' settings  I set my
windows account 'home' drive to be a samba share (it lives on a linux box)
and cygwin seems to use it. I think it is because I generated the cygwin
/etc/passwd with 'mkpasswd -d 'my_w2k_domain'.  The sharename is
where the 'home' directory would go.

If your win box is not part of a w2k domain, you can probably generate
the cygwin /etc/passwd file with 'mkpasswd -l'  and then hack it from
there.

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Bruce Dawson wrote:

>>How does one go about specifying an alternate home directory in Cygwin? 
>>   Right now, ~ == / and I'd rather it be /cygdrive/d/User\ Profiles/eprice
>>    
>>
>
>export HOME="/cygdrive/d/User Profiles/eprice"
>
>The above establishes your home directory - there really is no "alternate home"
>directory in Unix (that I'm aware of).
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