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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:00:38 -0400
Subject: whoami and ownership
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When I run whoami, it echoes "Administrator"  but my NT login id is "jrozycki"

How do I switch this so that when I create directories it puts the correct
username?  Mostly I want
to fix this for ssh. When I run ssh - it keeps trying to create
/home/Administrator/.ssh but can't.
I have tried changing some environmental variables such as:
export USER=jrozycki and export USERNAME=jrozycki but this did not work.


-Thanks
Jeff



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