X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 10:28:39 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Base-Files (was Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile?) Message-ID: <20091204092839.GA19994@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B18D1A7.8060106@alice.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B18D1A7.8060106@alice.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Dec 4 10:08, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > What about USERNAME and USER? > > Some time ago, I changed my /etc/passwd so that Administrator is > called 'root' in Cygwin, but USERNAME still points to Administrator > instead USER points to 'root'. > > Following this discussion I would ask if we should have, in Cygwin, > the initialization export USERNAME="$USER" in some place... I don't see how this would be correct. $USERNAME is a variable used by Windows tools while $USER is used by POSIX tools. If your Cygwin username is different from the Windows username, then $USER and $USERNAME reflect this in their respective world. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple