Re: zsh does not start in $HOME

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:09:18 +0200
Stephan Windmüller <stephan.windmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We are currently migrating from NIS to LDAP and have therefore both
> services running. To distinguish between them, LDAP accounts have their
> home directory set to /ldaphome/username.
> 
> This works with bash, but every time we start a zsh, the user's pwd is
> /home/username:
> 
> | $ bash
> | $ pwd
> | /ldaphome/username
> | $ echo $HOME
> | /ldaphome/username
> | $ zsh
> | % pwd
> | /home/username

zsh doesn't change directory internally when it starts, regardless of where
the home directory is.  They're not symbolic links, are they?  Otherwise
start with "zsh -x" and see what it's executing.

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