Marc Girod wrote: > > Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two sources for > the definition of home: > the HOME environment variable, and the entry in /etc/passwd. > I have myself: > ~> id > uid=1000(marc) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users) > ~> grep marc /etc/passwd > marc:unused:1000:513:U-sartre\marc,S-1-5-21-1848142070-2449128644-2827604881-1000:/home/marc:/bin/bash > ~> echo $HOME > /home/marc > Marc > Quite interesting. My id command gives ("Josette" is the name of the user and "PC-de-Josette" is the name of the computer) Josette unused 1000 513 U-PC-de-Josette\Josette,S-1-5-21-81082327-430422718-1981534784-1000 /home/Josette /bin/bash
and the echo $Home command gives "/home/Josette" So it seems quite correct. It does not explain why the mintty console does not open in the home directory, but it seems to prove that it is only a console problem. As you can see, the user name is in the computer name, so the grep command was not effective and I got all users listed. I noticed the following entry. " sshd unused 1002 513 sshd privsep,U-PC-de-Josette\sshd,S-1-5-21-81082327-430422718-1981534784-1002 /var/empty /bin/false " Does it seem also correct ? If not it could explain my sshd problems ? :) Gabier -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Installation-problems-with-home-path-and-sshd-tp32877343p32877431.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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