Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Why isn't my NT username created for Cygwin USER? Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:32:59 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Why isn't my NT username created for Cygwin USER? content-class: urn:content-classes:message x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Thread-Index: AcF+WoJa6u90r+pIEdWJ7ABQBABViA== From: "Rosenzweig, Daniel Z (Dan), NNAD" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id fB6MK9k06906 In NT, I have a username, lets call it, 'myname', which has admin rights (for the local PC). When I did a try mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd it never created a listing for danr -- it created one for Administrator --- and that's what my $USER and home directory are set for. On the other hand, Cygwin set my $USERNAME to danr. What's going on here? Thanks, Dan -- 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/