Problems with users home directory on cygwin64 on Windows 10

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Ross Boulet <rossb@rossb.com>:

> Have you tried running mkpasswd? The man page for mkpasswd looks like
> it might accomplish what you want.

Thanks! That worked!

Here's what I did:
 1. Let the mkpasswd program create an /etc/passwd for my user
     sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ mkpasswd -c -p "$(cygpath -H)" >/etc/passwd
     sb@ITEM-S63383:~$

 2. Checked the content of the generated /etc/passwd
     sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ grep sb /etc/passwd
     sb:*:1294839:1049089:U-AD\sb,S-1-5-21-2260904419-1400770398-4175912926-246263:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sb:/bin/bash
     sb@ITEM-S63383:~$

 3. Checked what getent said and it still gave /home/sb as the home
    directory
     sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ getent passwd sb
     sb:*:1294839:1049089:U-AD\sb,S-1-5-21-2260904419-1400770398-4175912926-246263:/home/sb:/bin/bash
     sb@ITEM-S63383:~$

 4. Stopped all cygwin windows

 5. Started a new cygwin window and now the home directory was correct
     sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ getent passwd sb
     sb:*:1294839:1049089:U-AD\sb,S-1-5-21-2260904419-1400770398-4175912926-246263:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sb:/bin/bash
     sb@ITEM-S63383:~$

> Also, this mailing list is deprecated. Please see
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2015-03/msg00001.html

Ah, sorry about that!  Old habit!

Next time I will use the main cygwin mailing list. :-)


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