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RE: home directory problems
- From: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- To: <brasse at ludd dot luth dot se>
- Cc: <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 06:55:05 -0000
- Subject: RE: home directory problems
- Reply-to: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
Yes. You are probably installing on W98? I believe the problem has been
identified and solved in principle and (presumably?) the solution will at
some stage be implemented. For the moment you can get round things as
follows:
mkdir /home/{yourname}
and move anything there that you need to, in the way of your own
.bash_profile, .bashrc, .inputrc, etc. (There may be none of these; but
whatever's currently in /usr/bin/{yourname}/ is probably specific to you.
When I experienced this problem, /usr/bin/{myname}/ was empty.)
Then edit the file /etc/passwd which probably looks something like this
{yourname}::500:544::{yourname}:/bin/bash
to this:
{yourname}::500:544::/home/{yourname}:/bin/bash
If you then close Cygwin and then start it up again everything should work
fine.
Fergus
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