[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1

Mon Feb 16 09:56:00 GMT 2015

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
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