HOMEDRIVE / HOMEPATH not available under runas shell

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[repost from m.p.windowsxp.security_admin, with some additional information]

Hi,

When starting up a new command prompt, using the runas command, the HOMEPATH
and HOMEDRIVE environment variables aren't available for the newly logged on
user. Example:

runas /user:<myuser> cmd
-- logging in --
>echo %HOMEPATH%
%HOMEPATH%
>echo %HOMEDRIVE%
%HOMEDRIVE%

Is this a known problem / bug? I tried searching the KB, but found nothing.

Some additional information:

- User-specific environment variables that I've defined explicitly
(System/Properties/Advanced/Environment Variables/User variables for <user> )
are there.

- At least some automatically defined user-specific environment variables
are set, such as USERPROFILE.

// Johan