Home directory and Cygwin
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Author: Momchil Ivanov <momchil@xaxo.eu>
Date  : 2017.10.30

Introduction
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  This article contains notes on the home directory in Cygwin.

/etc/nssswitch.conf
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  Some programs in Cygwin do not respect the $HOME environment
  variable and use /home/user as the home folder. One of these is ssh
  as of today. One can set the home directory for all users using the
  file /etc/nssswitch.conf. Insert

    db_home: /%H/AppData/Roaming

  in order to use the default Windows path. Here %H is mapped to the
  home folder of the Windows user. Other special symbols include %U
  which is the login name of the Windows user. For further information
  refer to Reference [1].

References
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  1: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch-syntax