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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:30:00 -0500
To: "Rosenzweig, Daniel Z (Dan), NNAD" <danr AT att DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Why isn't my NT username created for Cygwin USER?
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At 08:32 AM 12/6/2001, Rosenzweig, Daniel Z (Dan), NNAD wrote:
>In NT, I have a username, lets call it, 'myname', which has admin rights (for the local PC). When I did a 
>try mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd it never created a listing  for danr -- it created one for Administrator --- and that's what my $USER and home directory are set for. On the other hand, Cygwin set my $USERNAME to danr. What's going on here?



Checking the FAQ and email archives will give you some insights here.



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