Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <39AAA36D.D9EA735F@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:37:49 -0700 From: Mark Tigges Reply-To: mtigges AT cpsc DOT ucalgary DOT ca Organization: nobody X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.13 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: user names and home dirs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am having a problem creating multiple users on a machine and having the cygwin system manage the session correctly with the users. All of the users we have added since the first one get $USER=Administrator. The USERNAME variable is 'joe' or whatever the current user is. So the problem is that nobody except for the very first user I created (mark) gets a proper environment (non-Administrator USER and home directory). We have tried everything, including setting the USER variable in the cygwin.bat file in the root directory (it gets overridden). The groups and profile for the users are all the same. The second user added (after mark, the one that works) was given Administrator priviliges. All subsequent users have their cygwin environments set with ~=/home/administrator and USER=administrator even though they don't have NT administrator priviliges. Hopefully having created an administrator priviliged user hasn't hosed things (that user has since had it's priviliges taken away). Does anybody know the quirks about users and getting them to work correctly with cygwin on the same machine? Thanks, Mark. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com