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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:22:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Fox, Michael K" cc: Doug Jenkinson , Subject: RE: No userid In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Michael, It looks like you had /home/Administrator as your home directory even before you changed the user name. This would indicate that this information comes from somewhere else. Do you have HOME set in your Windows environment? I also don't recall you attaching the output of "cygcheck -svr" to any of your previous messages (as requested in ). If you didn't, please do so -- it'll help in diagnosing the problem. Igor On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Fox, Michael K wrote: > I fixed the typo (removed the extra 8). I assume this is what you > meant me see. But that didn't solve the problem. > > > From: Doug Jenkinson > > Take a look at the second to last parameter, that's the home directory. > > > > I have tried modifying the fourth line of the passwd file as follows > > > > > > foo7873:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-E182960\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1061762173-587356633-675955863-500:/home/foo78783:/bin/bash > > > > > > After this, when I restart Cygwin and type whoami the answer is > > > foo7873, but Cygwin still thinks my home directory should be > > > /home/Administrator and creates a new folder by that name. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/