Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <006d01c292e4$fe8f2cf0$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , "=?iso-8859-1?B?U3RldmUgTvrxZXo=?=" References: <5.2.0.9.0.20021123115631.00ad1780@localhost> Subject: Re: USER environment variable mystery Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 11:39:32 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Steve Núñez wrote: > I've recently spent some time configuring cygwin, and it's mostly > gone as expected. I say mostly because I've noticed a strange > behavior with the USER environment variable, and possibly others. > I've set this in both ~/.bashrc and in /etc/profile to be the user > name that our UNIX machines expect (the surname). The windows 2000 > machine I'm using thinks that the USER is "firstname lastname". Now > after setting these variables in ~/.bashrc, echo shows that they have > been properly set, however both my bash prompt and applications such > as ssh and xemacs continue to use "firstname lastname" (xemacs get's > this from "(getenv USER)", making me suspect some strangeness in the > getenv function). > > Does anyone know how to *really* change the environment variables? Is > this set somewhere deeper in the cygwin structure? Nope. Its a generic bash question, as far as I can tell. Sounds like youv'e set the shell variable, but not exported it to the environment. > I've also tried > setting this from the cygwin.bat file, but with no success. Did you comment out the line in /etc/profile which resets it? Anyway, you might be better served by modifiying your user entry in /etc/passwd. Read Cygwin's user guide for the details, but I think you will need to do something like (untested) - Change your username to surname in the first passwd field - Add a U-DOMAIN\firstname lastname to the gecos field. But check in the cygwin user guide first! Max. -- 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/