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From:	Brad Barber <bradb AT atg DOT com>
Subject:	Re: whoami and id returns "administrator" instead of my userid
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It looks like my problem is due to an ambiguous configuration of my
NT workstation.

If I look at
        Computer Management :: System Tools :: Local Users and Groups :: Users
I find
        Administrator
        atg
        Guest

cygwin/mkpasswd is using these values

KANE:/etc> mkpasswd -l
Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
Administrator::500:513:,S-1-5-21-1606980848-1563985344-1708537768-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/sh
atg::1000:513:atg,S-1-5-21-1606980848-1563985344-1708537768-1000:/home/atg:/bin/sh
Guest::501:513:,S-1-5-21-1606980848-1563985344-1708537768-501:/home/Guest:/bin/sh

It lookslike  the NT is storing my network userid elsewhere.  

If I look at 
        Control Panels :: System :: User Profiles
it identifies my profile as
        ASTROCITY\bbarber

Similarly 
        Control Panels :: System :: Environment Variables
identifies
        "User variables for bbarber"

It appears to ignore the information in
        Computer Management :: System Tools :: Local Users and Groups :: Users
and use  the "profile" information instead.

I don't know if this is a common enough problem to account for
in cygwin.   The end result is that "id" is "administrator" instead
of "bbarber".

KANE:/etc> id
uid=500(administrator) gid=513(None) groups=513(None)


                                                        --Brad



At 06:48 PM Thursday 3/22/2001, Andy Helten wrote:
>This worked for me:
>
>mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
>
>Also, see:
>
>http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MKPASSWD
>
>andy
>
>
>Brad Barber wrote:
>
>> At 03:49 PM Thursday 3/22/2001, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>
>> >Edit /etc/passwd
>>
>> Will that mean that I need to "login" to cygwin?
>>
>> Any suggestions for /etc/password and .cshrc?  The desired behavior is
>> that clicking on the tcsh icon gives me a tcsh shell running as "bbarber" (my Windows
>> 2000 userid).  Currently it runs the shell as "administrator".
>>
>>                                                 --Brad "learning sysadmin" Barber
>>
>> ------------
>> Here are the current values.  I wonder where it got "atg" and "Guest" from.
>> I don't think I've registered anyone.  I've never touched this file directly.
>>
>> KANE:/etc> cat passwd
>> Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
>> SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
>> Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
>> Administrator::500:513:,S-1-5-21-1606980848-1563985344-1708537768-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/sh
>> atg::1000:513:atg,S-1-5-21-1606980848-1563985344-1708537768-1000:/home/atg:/bin/sh
>> Guest::501:513:,S-1-5-21-1606980848-1563985344-1708537768-501:/home/Guest:/bin/sh
>>
>> >You may have to close and re-open your cygwin windows, too.
>> >
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