[ale] Cygwin

Benjie benjie.godfrey at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 11:01:04 EST 2007


vi /etc/passwd, then change the home directory for the user id

On 2/11/07, Terry Bailey <terry at bitlinx.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Windows 2003, how does one add a user/group in Cygwin and make the
> user's home directory point to a directory outside of the Cygwin
> environment (e.g., /cygdrive/d/abc)
>
> I thought that Cygwin would automatically recognize the users and the
> associated directories that were already there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Terry Bailey
>
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