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Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:00:55 -0500
To:	David Postill <David DOT Postill AT workthing DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Brad Barber <bradb AT atg DOT com>
Subject:	RE: whoami and id returns "administrator" instead of my userid
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>Use mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd instead.

David,

I set /etc/passwd to
        mkpasswd -d  | grep bbarber >/etc/passwd

It worked

KANE:/usr/bin> id
uid=1985(bbarber) gid=3135(Administrators)

Previously I tried adding 'bbarber' to NT's Local users list.  That did not change
        mkpasswd -l
probably because I didn't assign 'bbarber' to the 'Administrators' group.

Thanks for your help.
                                                                --Brad
                                        

At 07:54 AM Thursday 3/29/2001, David Postill wrote:
>| -----Original Message-----
>| From: Brad Barber [mailto:bradb AT atg DOT com]
>| Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:51 PM
>| To: Andy Helten; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>| Subject: Re: whoami and id returns "administrator" instead of 
>| my userid
>| 
>| 
>| 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-1-5-21-1606980848-1563985344-1708537
>| 768-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/sh
>| atg::1000:513:atg,S-1-5-21-1606980848-1563985344-1708537768-10
>| 00:/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.  
>
><snip>
>
>| >mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
>
>Use mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd instead.
>
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