> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Steinar Bang
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2018 9:07 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Problems with users home directory on cygwin64 on Windows 10
>
> Platform: Intel i7, Windows 10 Pro
> Cygwin64
>
> I installed cygwin X yesterday (basically the xorg-server, xlaunch,
> lxterminal,
> openssh and mosh). SSH doesn't work in the resulting installation because
> cygwin believes the home directory is /home/sb.
>
> I have set HOME as an environment variable, that in cygwin looks like:
> HOME=/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sb
>
> getent reports the following:
> sb@ITEM-S63383:~$ getent passwd sb
> sb:*:1294839:1049089:U-AD-ONE\sb,S-1-5-21-2260904419-1400770398-
> 4175912926-246263:/home/sb:/bin/bash
> sb@ITEM-S63383:~$
>
> The user "sb" is an AD user and the computer belongs to an active domain.
>
> I have tried the following:
> 1. Adding the following line to the /etc/nsswitch.conf file (also known
> as C:\cygwin64\etc\nsswitch.conf ):
> db_home: windows
> 2. Stopped all cygwin windows, but this didn't help 3. Changed the config to
> db_home: /%H
> 4. Stopped all cygwin windows, but the home directory was still
> /home/sb
> 5. Changed the /etc/nsswitch.conf file back to
> db_home: windows
> 5. Rebooted, but home directory was still /home/sb 6. Checked for
> /etc/password and/or /etc/group, but no such file were
> present
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> - Steinar
>
>
> --
[Ross Boulet]
Have you tried running mkpasswd? The man page for mkpasswd looks like it might
accomplish what you want.
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-Ross
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