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From: David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: More on Win7 update messing up HOME
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 02:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA5t8Vo_kdqfAO1L_z-xf8mzp=fK3AuTYRmoqHLKLiz33Rx-mQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I wish I could get my own messages on this list, so I could add more
information to my first note.

Running the installer again made no difference.  It still thinks my HOME is
"/".

I don't know what environment variables are set or inspected by cygwin.  I
see that the "USERNAME" variable seems to have my expected value.

I tried running "mkpasswd -d" and grepping for my userid, and it was there
(along with many others).

I can "fix" the environment in the mintty shell by setting HOME to
"/home/<myuid>" and then sourcing my .bashrc and .bash_profile. That
doesn't help my Emacs desktop shortcut, which uses "run2".

I noticed that when I do an "ls -lt" in my homedir, instead of the owner
and group of files being my simple uid, it's something like
"<MYDOMAIN>+User(1944941)" and "2993517" (group and user, respectively, I
believe).

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             reply	other threads:[~2019-08-16  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-16  2:39 David Karr [this message]
2019-08-16 10:50 ` Andrey Repin
2019-08-16 13:40   ` David Karr
2019-08-16 18:22     ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2019-08-16 18:42       ` David Karr
2019-08-16 18:43         ` Lee
2019-08-16 20:35           ` David Karr
2019-08-16 20:47     ` Andrey Repin
2019-08-16 21:02       ` Quanah Gibson-Mount
     [not found]       ` <1FFDA2C4248A525343CFDE92@192.168.1.144>
2019-08-16 22:11         ` David Karr
2019-08-17  8:16 ` Achim Gratz
2019-08-18  1:37   ` David Karr

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