I'm trying to safely update the home directory as specified in /etc/passwd,
but the standard Linux utils - usermod and vipw - for doing so aren't provided
by Cygwin.
Could anyone tell me how they changed this in Cygwin?
I ended up exiting all my cygwin shells and editing it by hand in a text editor. So far, so good.
Note: don't escape the spaces in the "Documents and Settings" directory. The entry will look like
user:...:/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/user:/bin/bash
The line is tokenized on the : character.