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: <4.3.1.2.20010626220952.020e1d60@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:10:30 -0400 To: "Karr, David" , "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: RE: whoami and ownership In-Reply-To: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B74733420473EDA8@exchanger.cachefl ow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sorry, no. Windows sets this variable. Larry At 06:52 PM 6/26/2001, Karr, David wrote: >I happened to discover that there is an environment variable called >"USERDOMAIN" that happens to be set to the domain my login is from. I'm >going to guess that Cygwin sets this somehow. I can't find any >documentation about it, or notes about it in the archive. When and under >what circumstances will this be set by Cygwin? It would be nice if I could >just reference this when I'm trying to initialize the /etc/passwd file. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Karr, David [mailto:david DOT karr AT cacheflow DOT com] >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:43 PM >To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com' >Subject: RE: whoami and ownership > > >After getting a quick lesson on how our network is structured, I find that >the domain our PCs are on is NOT the domain we specify when we log in. That >seems bizarre to me, but that's how it's set up. So, it looks like if I >write a setup script to do this, I'll actually have to hardcode a domain >name. Yuck. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Karr, David [mailto:david DOT karr AT cacheflow DOT com] >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:08 PM >To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com' >Subject: RE: whoami and ownership > > >The point about specifying a different domain is apparently my problem. By >specifying the name of the domain that I select on the Windows login prompt, >I got many more names, including mine (not to mention taking quite a long >time to list). I'm a little confused about why the "default domain" wasn't >the domain that I logged in to, but perhaps those two things don't have >anything to do with each other? > >-----Original Message----- >From: Peter Buckley [mailto:peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com] >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 12:16 PM >To: 'Karr, David'; 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com' >Subject: RE: whoami and ownership > > >Have you tried using > >mkpasswd -d | grep dkarr >> /etc/passwd > >This should search the domain for your username, and add that line >to the passwd file. I found this when I went to google and did a >search for "whoami site:cygwin.com". > >I saw some responses from Corinna, but I don't know if any were the right >one. I searched on google for "whoami corinna site:cygwin.com". >The other thing to try is > >mkpasswd -d domain_name > /etc/passwd > >just in case the default domain is different from the one you want >(I found this in the docs on mkpasswd I think). > >I find that the search page on the cygwin site isn't very helpful, >but google works great. After I looked up some of Earnie's posts, I found >out that great trick to enter a site to google's search terms. That has been > >very helpful in searching cygwin stuff. > >Sorry I am sending this to you and the list, but my mailserver is really >slow >with the cygwin list, so when I post things there it takes between 15 and 50 > >minutes to show up, and I hope you get this in a timely fashion. > >Thanks, >Peter > >-----Original Message----- >From: Karr, David [mailto:david DOT karr AT cacheflow DOT com] >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:35 PM >To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com >Subject: RE: whoami and ownership > > >I'd like to know the best answer for this also. I just searched the >archive, and I only find the statements about using "mkpasswd -d > >/etc/passwd". I can't find any statement from Corinna (or anyone else) >saying to do something different. In my case, I eventually just hand-edited >the passwd file and added a line for myself. For some reason, running >"mkpasswd -d" gives me lots of names of people on the network, but NOT mine. > >(and note that using Outlook for mailing lists (others probably work >similarly), in order to write a response to a note so that it goes to the >list, I have to "Reply to All", and then MANUALLY remove the personal names >from the "To" list. If I just do a "Reply", the note ONLY goes to the >original poster. Part of the problem with notes going to people instead of >the list is that the most common tool people will likely be using for >mailing lists forces us to take manual steps to get it right. When I >respond to notes in GNUS, it just "does the right thing".) > >-----Original Message----- >From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc) [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com] >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:26 AM >To: JROZYCKI AT ebmail DOT gdeb DOT com; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com >Subject: Re: whoami and ownership > > >At 01:00 PM 6/26/2001, JROZYCKI AT ebmail DOT gdeb DOT com wrote: > >When I run whoami, it echoes "Administrator" but my NT login id is >"jrozycki" > > > >How do I switch this so that when I create directories it puts the correct > >username? Mostly I want > >to fix this for ssh. When I run ssh - it keeps trying to create > >/home/Administrator/.ssh but can't. > >I have tried changing some environmental variables such as: > >export USER=jrozycki and export USERNAME=jrozycki but this did not work. > > > > >You should go looking in the email archives for Corinna's response to this >question. I forget the details although I know the solution is *not* to >change the /etc/passwd file as I once suggested. Too bad I only remember >the wrong way to do things. ;-) > > > >Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com >RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com >118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office >Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX > > >-- >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/ > >-- >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/ > >-- >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/ > >-- >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/ > >-- >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/ -- 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/