Cygwin HOME directory on Win XP

No idea, but what I always do with cygwin is to set HOME in my environment to point to C:\Documents and Settings\cjh\My Documents That makes bash start in your My Documents directory. It seems really pointless of cygwin to create a home directory of its own instead of using the user's My Documents.

I also delete the stupid "bash" icon and make a direct shortcut to "bash.exe --login -i", which avoids the question when you exit from bash. Copy the icon from the desktop to the quick-start bar.

Clifford Heath.

I think my problem has to do with having the . in my user id (agherna.UIUC). It's this way because I have 2 ids on my machine: one is agherna that's for the local machine and the other is part of the UIUC domain. Has anyone been able to find a way to cope with the . in the user id?

I have a . in my username (login name.domain) and Cygwin works fine. I start it with the shortcut in my Start menu, which runs cygwin.bat. I've not touched anything - was set up that way by Cygwin installer. Contents of this file are:

@echo off

C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin

bash --login -i

When I start Cygwin I am in folder ~, which when doing pwd, shows:

David Hearn@ ~ $ pwd /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/David Hearn.

If I understood your problem ... I have set HOME user variable in system Environment Variables to %USERPROFILE% Try it :)

Ups ... sorry

Could you post your entry from your /etc/passwd file (or send it to me)?

David Hearn wrote:

Ok, that seemed to help, but I also noticed that my %HOME% environment variable was surrounded by quotes. Removing those corrected the problem. Thank you one and all for your help.