On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> $ echo $HOME
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/lwv27

That looks like it's inherited from Windows.  Cygwin won't set HOME if
it's already set in the Windows environment.

> Neither of these directories under /home are associated with me. They
> are, however, associated with the person who is running setup

Ah.  IIRC, if you're logging into Cygwin as a user other than the one
who set it up, you'll have to use mkpasswd to add that user to the
Cygwin environment.

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>

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