Message-Id: <200112070116.fB71GQp24266@delorie.com> 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 From: "Daniel Rosenzweig" To: Cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:15:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: $USERNAME != $USER ($USERNAME = Win NT name) Reply-to: danielzr@netzero.net X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) 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 'myname'. What's going on here? Thanks --------- Daniel Rosenzweig danielzr@netzero.net The URLs below are placed by NetZero - not me. ---------------------------------------------------- Sign Up for NetZero Platinum Today Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97 -- 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/