More on Win7 update messing up HOME

Fri Aug 16 18:43:00 GMT 2019

On 8/16/19, David Karr wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:32 AM Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
>>> Am 16.08.2019 um 15:28 schrieb David Karr:
>> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 3:50 AM Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>> >> Do you have %HOME% variable set in your user environment?
>> >> Do you have %HOMEDRIVE%/%HOMEPATH% variables defined to something
>> >> unsettling?
>>>> > I checked "Environment Variables" in control panel, and I'm not setting
>> > anything beginning with "HOME" in either user or system variables.
>>>> That check is not really useful, though.
>>>> You need to look at the actual environment constructed for a user
>> process, at run-time. About the easiest is to start a Windows command
>> shell (Start->Run "cmd") and look at the output of the "set" command.
>>>> In cases of looking for names starting with some prefix, like here, you
>> can narrow down the search:
>>>> set HOME
>>>> That just results in:
>> HOMEDRIVE=C:
> HOMEPATH=\Users\<myuid>
>> I detailed this in another reply, but this would fit one of those checks,
> which should result in "C:\Users\<myuid>", which is my Windows home
> directory, which does exist. I don't want it to use this, but it's not
> anyway. It's resulting in "/" as my Cygwin home.

Have you checked /etc/nsswitch.conf yet?
$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree.
# To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes. For a description
# see https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch
#
# Defaults:
# passwd: files db
# group: files db
# db_enum: cache builtin
# db_home: /home/%U
# db_shell: /bin/bash
# db_gecos: <empty>
Lee
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