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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: geneSmith Subject: Re: login name changed Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:50:33 -0400 Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <6.1.0.6.0.20040914220229.02a05078@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.168.89.166 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040914220229.02a05078@pop.prospeed.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Larry Hall wrote, On 9/14/2004 10:10 PM: > At 07:23 PM 9/14/2004, you wrote: > >>Due to administrative reason my login name changed from "gene" to "gene.us." This also produced a new directory under "Documents and Setting" called "gene-us" which is my new default home directory for windows. However, cygwin never seems to get the message and when I start cygwin (via rxvt) it thinks my home is still in "gene." How do I tell cygwin to use "gene.us" as my home? > > > > > Same as always. Run 'mkpasswd'. See the docs: > > > 'man mkpasswd' > > and/or see '/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.done'. > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > Thanks for the pointers. For the record: mkpasswd -d MYDOMAIN > /etc/passwd produced thousands of entries. Weeded it down to just me since I am the only relevant user. Also, in /etc/passwd had to change /home/gene.us to /cyygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/gene.us for it to work right running rxvt. Rxvt also complained that I need to run mkgroup. So I did mkgroup -d MYDOMAIN > /etc/group This also produced thousands of entries but since I was not sure which of the groups I am in, just left them all in /etc/group. Complaint about mkgroup went away and rxvt starts with ok speed. I assume this is all ok. -gene -- Lit up like Levy's -- 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/