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Subject: Re: how does cygwin see what user I am in windows?
From: Alex Malinovich <demonbane AT the-love-shack DOT net>
To: Mattias =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Br=E4ndstr=F6m?= <brasse AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Have you considered RTFM? Or more specifically, the FAQ. Look for
"mkpasswd -d".

-Alex

On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 06:05, Mattias Br=E4ndstr=F6m wrote:
> Hi!
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> I have some questions about how cygwin determines what user I am logged=20
> in as on my Win2000 machine.
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> I have installed cygwin on my Win2000 machine and I am logged on that=20
> one as DOMAIN/userx. DOMAIN/userx is not a local user for my machine but=20
> a user in the domain DOMAIN. Now when I start cygwin 'id -un' reports=20
> that my username is Administrator and creates a home directory for me=20
> named /home/Administrator. That's not what I want. I want /home/userx as=20
> my home directory. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
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> Regards,
> Mattias
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