Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010626132405.020d0e58@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:26:02 -0400 To: JROZYCKI@ebmail.gdeb.com, cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" Subject: Re: whoami and ownership In-Reply-To: <85256A77.005D4B52.00@ebmail.gdeb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:00 PM 6/26/2001, JROZYCKI@ebmail.gdeb.com wrote: >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. > You should go looking in the email archives for Corinna's response to this question. I forget the details although I know the solution is *not* to change the /etc/passwd file as I once suggested. Too bad I only remember the wrong way to do things. ;-) Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/