Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

[David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:20 PM Andrey Repin wrote:

> Greetings, David Karr!
>
> >> > So, before this reboot, my Cygwin home directory has always been
> >> > "/home/<myuid>", which has always resided at
> "c:\cygwin64\home\<myuid>".
> >> > After the reboot, my Cygwin home directory is "/", which appears to
> >> > translate to "c:\cygwin64" (from "cygpath -w /").  However, according
> to
> >> > the rules listed in /etc/profille, I SHOULD be getting home set to
> >> > "c:/Users/<myuid>", although I don't want that.
> >> >
> >> > Any other ideas?
> >>
> >>  1. cygcheck -srv? (include the compressed output to your reply)
> >>
> >>  2. getent passwd? (what home directory for your id?)
> >>
>
> > The first line of this output is this (with some minor elisions):
>
>
> >
> <mydomain>+User(1944941):*:2993517:2993517:U-<mydomain>\User(1944941),S-1-5-21-2057499049-1289676208-1959431660-1944941:/:/sbin/nologin
>
> Your machine is a domain member?
>

Apparently.


> > This does seem to correspond to having a homedir of "/".
>
> Not "correspond", but it exactly is.
>

Clearly, but I still don't know what changed to make this start happening.


> > I don't know what this looked like before.
>
>
> >>  3. /etc/nsswitch.conf? (db_home?)
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin
> Friday, August 16, 2019 23:31:58
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>
>

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