Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20011206172700.023302a0@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: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:30:00 -0500 To: "Rosenzweig, Daniel Z (Dan), NNAD" , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Why isn't my NT username created for Cygwin USER? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 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/