From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8294 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2012 17:38:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 8058 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Aug 2012 17:38:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vb0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-vb0-f43.google.com) (209.85.212.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:37:49 +0000 Received: by vbbfq11 with SMTP id fq11so8972666vbb.2 for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:37:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.73.105 with SMTP id k9mr18146992vdv.72.1343929068039; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:37:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.222.8 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:37:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:08:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden From: Soumya Roy To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00055.txt.bz2 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 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. > -- 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