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From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with users home directory on cygwin64 on Windows 10 Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:23:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <upzcd11f5ray.fsf@dod.no> (raw) In-Reply-To: <F187BCB1819C944184FEFF04AA702BF60112B89CF4@ORD2MBX05E.mex05.mlsrvr.com> >>>>> Ross Boulet <rossb@rossb.com>: > Have you tried running mkpasswd? The man page for mkpasswd looks like > it might accomplish what you want. Thanks! That worked! Here's what I did: 1. Let the mkpasswd program create an /etc/passwd for my user sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ mkpasswd -c -p "$(cygpath -H)" >/etc/passwd sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ 2. Checked the content of the generated /etc/passwd sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ grep sb /etc/passwd sb:*:1294839:1049089:U-AD\sb,S-1-5-21-2260904419-1400770398-4175912926-246263:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sb:/bin/bash sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ 3. Checked what getent said and it still gave /home/sb as the home directory sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ getent passwd sb sb:*:1294839:1049089:U-AD\sb,S-1-5-21-2260904419-1400770398-4175912926-246263:/home/sb:/bin/bash sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ 4. Stopped all cygwin windows 5. Started a new cygwin window and now the home directory was correct sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ getent passwd sb sb:*:1294839:1049089:U-AD\sb,S-1-5-21-2260904419-1400770398-4175912926-246263:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sb:/bin/bash sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ > Also, this mailing list is deprecated. Please see > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2015-03/msg00001.html Ah, sorry about that! Old habit! Next time I will use the main cygwin mailing list. :-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-08 17:23 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2018-02-07 15:08 Steinar Bang 2018-02-07 18:15 ` Ross Boulet 2018-02-08 17:23 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
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