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From:	geneSmith <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com>
Subject:	Re: login name changed
Date:	Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:50:33 -0400
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Larry Hall wrote, On 9/14/2004 10:10 PM:
> At 07:23 PM 9/14/2004, you wrote:
> 
>>Due to administrative reason my login name changed from "gene" to "gene.us."  This also produced a new directory under "Documents and Setting" called "gene-us" which is my new default home directory for windows. However, cygwin never seems to get the message and when I start cygwin (via rxvt) it thinks my home is still in "gene."  How do I tell cygwin to use "gene.us" as my home?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Same as always.  Run 'mkpasswd'.  See the docs:
> 
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MKPASSWD>
> 'man mkpasswd'
> 
> and/or see '/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.done'.
> 
> 
> --
> Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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> Holliston, MA 01746                     
> 
> 

Thanks for the pointers.

For the record:

mkpasswd -d MYDOMAIN > /etc/passwd

produced thousands of entries. Weeded it down to just me since I am the 
only relevant user. Also, in /etc/passwd had to change /home/gene.us to 
/cyygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/gene.us for it to work right running 
rxvt.

Rxvt also complained that I need to run mkgroup. So I did

mkgroup -d MYDOMAIN > /etc/group

This also produced thousands of entries but since I was not sure which 
of the groups I am in, just left them all in /etc/group. Complaint about 
mkgroup went away and rxvt starts with ok speed.

I assume this is all ok.

-gene
-- 
Lit up like Levy's


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