* How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)? @ 2017-09-09 5:11 Ben Stover via cygwin 2017-09-09 7:53 ` Marco Atzeri 2017-09-09 9:39 ` Kptain 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Ben Stover via cygwin @ 2017-09-09 5:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Cygwin MailList By default the user folder of Cygwin (under Win7) is in a subdirectory <installation folder>\home\<username> How can I put it into a separate directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin? Example: I installed Cygwin in D:\tools\cygwin\v2\ and want to put my (resp. all) home directories into D:\tools\cygwin\myhome\ If possible I would like to specify my new home directory not as absolute but as relative path. I would prefer a customization somwhow in "Cygwin.bat" like: set cygwinhome=..\myhome Mind the double dots standing for "go up one level". How can I achieve this? Ben . -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)? 2017-09-09 5:11 How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)? Ben Stover via cygwin @ 2017-09-09 7:53 ` Marco Atzeri 2017-09-09 8:31 ` Jürgen Wagner 2017-09-09 9:39 ` Kptain 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Marco Atzeri @ 2017-09-09 7:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin On 09/09/2017 07:06, Ben Stover via cygwin wrote: > By default the user folder of Cygwin (under Win7) is in a subdirectory > > <installation folder>\home\<username> from cygwin point of view "/home/<username>" > How can I put it into a separate directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin? > > Example: > > I installed Cygwin in > > D:\tools\cygwin\v2\ > > and want to put my (resp. all) home directories into > > D:\tools\cygwin\myhome\ > > If possible I would like to specify my new home directory not as absolute but as relative path. > > I would prefer a customization somwhow in "Cygwin.bat" like: > > set cygwinhome=..\myhome > > Mind the double dots standing for "go up one level". > > How can I achieve this? > > Ben > mkpasswd -c >> /etc/passwd change the fifth field of "/etc/passwd" from "/home/<username>" to "/cygdrive/d/tools/cygwin/myhome" close all cygwin process and rerun. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)? 2017-09-09 7:53 ` Marco Atzeri @ 2017-09-09 8:31 ` Jürgen Wagner 2017-09-09 9:03 ` Corinna Vinschen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Jürgen Wagner @ 2017-09-09 8:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2088 bytes --] Hi, of course, you could change something in /etc/passwd to define a new home directory. However, it is good to have the convention of home directories being under one root (at least for non-administrative accounts). Therefore, my preferred solution is to make a symbolic link. /home/USER => /cygdrive/d/tools/... You can have symbolic links with relative paths as a destination, however, that would assume you still are in the directory universe of Cygwin. In this case, you are not. Therefore, you have to address this via /cygdrive/... Besides... what is the advantage of having a relative path here, anyway? If you install different flavours of Cygwin as siblings under a common root, the absolute path will be the same for all instances. Cheers, --J. On 09.09.2017 09:53, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 09/09/2017 07:06, Ben Stover via cygwin wrote: >> By default the user folder of Cygwin (under Win7) is in a subdirectory >> >> <installation folder>\home\<username> > > from cygwin point of view "/home/<username>" > >> How can I put it into a separate directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin? >> >> Example: >> >> I installed Cygwin in >> >> D:\tools\cygwin\v2\ >> >> and want to put my (resp. all) home directories into >> >> D:\tools\cygwin\myhome\ >> >> If possible I would like to specify my new home directory not as >> absolute but as relative path. >> >> I would prefer a customization somwhow in "Cygwin.bat" like: >> >> set cygwinhome=..\myhome >> >> Mind the double dots standing for "go up one level". >> >> How can I achieve this? >> >> Ben >> > > > mkpasswd -c >> /etc/passwd > > change the fifth field of "/etc/passwd" > from "/home/<username>" > to "/cygdrive/d/tools/cygwin/myhome" > > > close all cygwin process and rerun. > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > [-- Attachment #2: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature --] [-- Type: application/pkcs7-signature, Size: 3986 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)? 2017-09-09 8:31 ` Jürgen Wagner @ 2017-09-09 9:03 ` Corinna Vinschen 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2017-09-09 9:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2632 bytes --] [top-posting fixed] On Sep 9 10:31, Jürgen Wagner wrote: > On 09.09.2017 09:53, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > On 09/09/2017 07:06, Ben Stover via cygwin wrote: > >> By default the user folder of Cygwin (under Win7) is in a subdirectory > >> > >> <installation folder>\home\<username> > > > > from cygwin point of view "/home/<username>" > > > >> How can I put it into a separate directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin? > >> [...] > >> If possible I would like to specify my new home directory not as > >> absolute but as relative path. > >> > >> I would prefer a customization somwhow in "Cygwin.bat" like: We *have* extensive customization, see below. > >> > >> set cygwinhome=..\myhome > >> > >> Mind the double dots standing for "go up one level". > >> > >> How can I achieve this? > >> > >> Ben > >> > > mkpasswd -c >> /etc/passwd > > > > change the fifth field of "/etc/passwd" > > from "/home/<username>" > > to "/cygdrive/d/tools/cygwin/myhome" > > > > close all cygwin process and rerun. /etc/passwd should be the absolut last resort. Preferredly the changes are in /etc/nsswitch.conf and the user database, SAM or AD. Here's the howto: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-passwdinfo For instance, change /etc/nsswitch.conf to contain db_home: /your/desired/homedir/%U > Hi, > of course, you could change something in /etc/passwd to define a new > home directory. However, it is good to have the convention of home > directories being under one root (at least for non-administrative > accounts). Therefore, my preferred solution is to make a symbolic link. > > /home/USER => /cygdrive/d/tools/... > > You can have symbolic links with relative paths as a destination, > however, that would assume you still are in the directory universe of > Cygwin. In this case, you are not. Therefore, you have to address this > via /cygdrive/... > > Besides... what is the advantage of having a relative path here, anyway? > If you install different flavours of Cygwin as siblings under a common > root, the absolute path will be the same for all instances. I'd suggest a mount point in /etc/fstab instead, e.g. C:/cygwin64/newhome /home ntfs binary 0 0 That has the additional advantage that the POSIX ACL handling is under your control, rather than being the default noacl handling of cygdrive paths. Alternatively, see the /etc/nsswitch.conf customizations above. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 819 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)? 2017-09-09 5:11 How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)? Ben Stover via cygwin 2017-09-09 7:53 ` Marco Atzeri @ 2017-09-09 9:39 ` Kptain 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Kptain @ 2017-09-09 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin I suggest to reuse Windows environment variable: $USERPROFILE Just redefine new home directory: setenv HOME $USERPROFILE/home (for example if you expect a folder outside cygwin folder itself) -- Sent from: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Cygwin-list-f3.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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