home directory overridden by root?

[Paul Beard]

> On Feb 27, 2017, at 2:13 AM, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> If that's not correct check if some login script sets that variable
> and remove that.  Its value should be correct by default.

I have no idea what could set that other than that some . script. But I found nothing that set any environment variables. 

I created a .bashrc that explicitly sets it for now. I may create a new user and see if that account gets its $HOME set properly.