From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 85514 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2017 08:31:18 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 85502 invoked by uid 89); 9 Sep 2017 08:31:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*M:e48f, USER, accounts, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: smtp02.udag.de Received: from smtp02.udag.de (HELO smtp02.udag.de) (62.146.106.18) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 08:31:16 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.40] (p5dee4370.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.238.67.112]) by smtp02.udag.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id ADF95A46 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2017 10:31:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <190592.83283.bm@smtp101.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> <95cc51c1-8254-31b7-6a55-01810587ebdc@gmail.com> From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=bcrgen_Wagner?= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 08:31:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <95cc51c1-8254-31b7-6a55-01810587ebdc@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha-256; boundary="------------ms050400090106040708000301" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00109.txt.bz2 --------------ms050400090106040708000301 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en-US Content-length: 2185 Hi, =C2=A0 of course, you could change something in /etc/passwd to define a new home directory. However, it is good to have the convention of home directories being under one root (at least for non-administrative accounts). Therefore, my preferred solution is to make a symbolic link. /home/USER =3D> /cygdrive/d/tools/... You can have symbolic links with relative paths as a destination, however, that would assume you still are in the directory universe of Cygwin. In this case, you are not. Therefore, you have to address this via /cygdrive/... Besides... what is the advantage of having a relative path here, anyway? If you install different flavours of Cygwin as siblings under a common root, the absolute path will be the same for all instances. Cheers, --J. On 09.09.2017 09:53, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 09/09/2017 07:06, Ben Stover via cygwin wrote: >> By default the user folder of Cygwin (under Win7) is in a subdirectory >> >> \home\ > > from cygwin point of view "/home/" > >> 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=3D..\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=C2=A0 "/home/" > to "/cygdrive/d/tools/cygwin/myhome" > > > close all cygwin process and rerun. > > --=20 > Problem reports:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 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