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Dan Lipofsky wrote: > > I installed the latest cygwin on my Win2000Pro machine. > I was administrator when I installed it, but I am now > trying to use it while logged on as dlipofsky. However, > cygwin still thinks I am administrator. How can I fix this? > > USER=administrator but USERNAME=dlipofsky. > USERNAME is set by the OS. Here is a dump of some enviroment > variables, from bash and from the DOS prompt respectively. > USER is set in the /etc/profile function by issuing the `id -un` command. The id command gets it's name from the associated uid in the /etc/passwd file. I can also guess that you are in the local administrator group and logged on as a domain user. Upon setup a /etc/passwd file is created from the local sid. You need to add your domain sid for your user account. Cheers, Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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