HOME directory has somehow been overridden

HOME directory has somehow been overridden

[Soumya Roy]

Hi everybody,
first of all I'm not a 'knows the ins and outs' user of
cygwin(although I absolutely love using it and would like to become
one!!).
My problems began(I think) when I installed heroku toolbelt for
facebook app creation...I went through some initial hiccups(with ssh
etc) and had to solve them (while working with cmd.exe).
Well my life went fine until later on I fired up cygwin and realized
that my intial directory has now been changed from
"c:/cygwin/home/username" to "c:/Documents and Settings/username"...
I "tried" to fix the problem by googling around(mkpasswd and all that)
and I think I've made the problem no better(if not worse)....
I really need some help guys.
Thanks.

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Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

[Earnie Boyd]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Soumya Roy wrote:
> Well my life went fine until later on I fired up cygwin and realized
> that my intial directory has now been changed from
> "c:/cygwin/home/username" to "c:/Documents and Settings/username"...

Look for a HOME environment variable set in the Windows environment.

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Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

[Soumya Roy]

Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:-

/home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash
VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\
8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash

thanks

On 8/2/12, Soumya Roy <roy.valmont@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> first of all I'm not a 'knows the ins and outs' user of
> cygwin(although I absolutely love using it and would like to become
> one!!).
> My problems began(I think) when I installed heroku toolbelt for
> facebook app creation...I went through some initial hiccups(with ssh
> etc) and had to solve them (while working with cmd.exe).
> Well my life went fine until later on I fired up cygwin and realized
> that my intial directory has now been changed from
> "c:/cygwin/home/username" to "c:/Documents and Settings/username"...
> I "tried" to fix the problem by googling around(mkpasswd and all that)
> and I think I've made the problem no better(if not worse)....
> I really need some help guys.
> Thanks.
>

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Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Soumya Roy!

> Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:-

> /home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash
> VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\
> 8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash

My only question: Why you're doing this?
Isn't your profile directory is a logical location for your $HOME?
Other than that, check all settings that may affect it.
Environment variable, as suggested, being one of them.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 03.08.2012, <01:27>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

[Andrew DeFaria]

On 8/2/2012 2:28 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Soumya Roy!
>
>> Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:-
>> /home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash
>> VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\
>> 8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash
> My only question: Why you're doing this?
> Isn't your profile directory is a logical location for your $HOME?
> Other than that, check all settings that may affect it.
> Environment variable, as suggested, being one of them.
My logical location for my $HOME is usually off on some filter, where 
it's the $HOME for Windows and the $HOME for Unix/Linux. I could care 
less about [C:\Documents and Settings|C:\Users]\$USERNAME.
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Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

[Soumya Roy]

Hi Andrey !

I get what you mean....
I definitely must have made a mistake while trying to fix the problem,
the analogy of what I was doing is like that of black box testing, I
try to fix in some way but I don't really "know" what is going on
inside and I just check the result...;-)
Howver as it turns out, previously when I was typing "$ ls ~"    I was
getting the contents of "Documents and Settings/Valnt"....but now
however "$ ls ~"   gives me the actual proper content of
"/cygwin/home/Valnt"....which is perfect...however the basic problem
still remains i.e the initial directory(after starting cygwin) that I
am in is "Documents and Settings/Valnt"...
so this is what I want to "fix"...
Any suggestion is much appreciated.

On 8/3/12, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@freemail.ru> wrote:
> Greetings, Soumya Roy!
>
>> Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:-
>
>> /home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash
>> VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\
>> 8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash
>
> My only question: Why you're doing this?
> Isn't your profile directory is a logical location for your $HOME?
> Other than that, check all settings that may affect it.
> Environment variable, as suggested, being one of them.
>
>
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> WBR,
> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 03.08.2012, <01:27>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>
>

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Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Soumya Roy!

Please, don't top-post.

> Howver as it turns out, previously when I was typing "$ ls ~"    I was
> getting the contents of "Documents and Settings/Valnt"....but now
> however "$ ls ~"   gives me the actual proper content of
> "/cygwin/home/Valnt"....which is perfect...however the basic problem
> still remains i.e the initial directory(after starting cygwin) that I
> am in is "Documents and Settings/Valnt"...
> so this is what I want to "fix"...
> Any suggestion is much appreciated.

You can define HOME in windows evironment. But that would also affect other
programs, that totally don't expect such action.
I mean, if you say $HOME, programs expect it to point you your user's profile.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 07.08.2012, <12:15>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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