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Re: Setting $HOME for Windows
- From: Andrew DeFaria <adefaria at lnxw dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:19:51 -0800
- Subject: Re: Setting $HOME for Windows
- References: <20041223173744.GA752@home>
George wrote:
I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually
setting $HOME as a Windows environment variable.
I can't seem to find the message, so if someone can elaborate on why
this is A Bad Thing, I'd appreciate it. This is for those of us
pursuing the Holy Grail of integrating Cygwin with Windows (or,
depending on one's view, Windows with Cygwin), and doing our best to
ignore the less-than-holy %USERPROFILE% construct.
Personally I believe I arranged for Cygwin's bash shell to utilize the
actual home field in /etc/passwd (by changing /etc/profile). Next I
mount <wherever Windows has my home> to /home. In the corporate
environment where home directories are often stored on a server this
would be a mount -bsf //server/homeshare /home. Then ls /home lists all
user's home directories and /etc/passwd says home = /home/$USER.
At home I don't even use that silly C:\Documents and Settings\$USER crap
and have successfully (though not easily) hacked the registry into using
C:\Home\<username> and storing all configuration type data into
C:\Home\<username>\Configuration - but that's me...
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