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At 04:07 PM 1/10/2001, Earnie Boyd wrote: >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. This seems to come up allot. Maybe we need an FAQ for this? Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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