Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/18/13:23:19
Look at the file /etc/passwd. Is your jdoe username in there? If you are
in a windows NT domain, and jdoe is a domain user, you will need to type
"mkpasswd -u jdoe >> /etc/passwd" from a bash shell to create an entry
for jdoe. Alternately you can use "mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd" to
populate the passwd file with all domain users.
HTH,
Peter
Bleyer, Michael wrote:
> I am logged in as user "jdoe" and have administrator rights on a WinNT box.
> I installed the most recent stable cygwin on this box (logged in as user
> "jdoe"), usable for "all".
>
> However, the cygwin shell tells me:
> ~ $ whoami
> Administrator
>
> and gives me the following environment variable settings:
> USER=Administrator
> USERNAME=jdoe
>
> and consequently:
> ~ $ pwd
> /home/Administrator
>
>
> Obviously cygwin logs me in as "Administrator" instead of "jdoe", even
> though I logged in as user jdoe under WinNT
> (USERNAME=jdoe in a DOS box).
> Is there a way to change/avoid this? I tried installing cygwin as "usable
> only for me" but it's just the same.
> I've tried the registry, FAQ and mailing list archives to no avail.
>
> A problem arises when I use cvs for example, as it gets my username from the
> env variable USER and all my files get checked in from user "Administrator"
> as opposed to "jdoe". I could of course hack around this, but maybe there is
> a simpler solution?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Michael
>
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
> Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
>
>
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
- Raw text -