On Feb 15 21:36, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> By the way, > >> getent passwd %USERNAME% > >> return homedir correctly, but bash insist on using existing HOME even if > >> started as login shell. > > > Of course. All shells do that. They expect HOME to have a useful value > > because HOME is usually set by the login process before the shell is > > started. And the login process, if there is any, fetches HOME from the > > account DB. > > That makes me wonder, if there's a sane way to simulate such login process > under cygwin without asking user for name/password? > Or unsetting global %HOME% is the only way to go?
There's no reason at all to set a global %HOME% variable for Cygwin. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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