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Re: Clean install, incomplete setup - no home dir, broken PATH


On 5/9/2013 16:39, Daniel Davis wrote:

all new shells
start from the same place (/usr/bin) with a broken path.

I don't know about your other problems, but this one sounds like /etc/passwd didn't get set up correctly. Cygwin ships with a 'mkpasswd' script that does this for you. I'd suggest reading all the text surrounding 'mkpasswd' found on this page:

	http://www.cygwin.com/faq.html

I could see problems due to spaces in the user name or Windows domains being an issue here, for example.

You might also need to do a 'mkgroup'.

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