From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)?
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 07:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95cc51c1-8254-31b7-6a55-01810587ebdc@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <190592.83283.bm@smtp101.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-09 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-09 5:11 Ben Stover via cygwin
2017-09-09 7:53 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2017-09-09 8:31 ` Jürgen Wagner
2017-09-09 9:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-09-09 9:39 ` Kptain
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