Changing the home directory ($HOME)

Markus Hoenicka markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de
Wed Mar 31 11:50:00 GMT 2010


Phil Couling <couling@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> I have cygwin pre installed on a pc I'm using. I'd like to change the
> home directory ($HOME) but I'm having some trouble finding where it's
> been set. Currently it points to a drive letter q: . I'd much prefer
> to point it at /home/username.

/etc/profile says:
# Here is how HOME is set, in order of priority, when starting from Windows
# 1) From existing HOME in the Windows environment, translated to a 
Posix path
# 2) from /etc/passwd, if there is an entry with a non empty directory field
# 3) from HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH
# 4) / (root)
I've used #1.
HTH
Markus
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