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 Subject: Re: how does cygwin see what user I am in windows? From: Alex Malinovich To: Mattias =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Br=E4ndstr=F6m?= Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <3C6F9C84.4080801@ludd.luth.se> References: <3C6F9C84 DOT 4080801 AT ludd DOT luth DOT se> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Ogd+924LQqQ4Py0sOJJX" X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 17 Feb 2002 09:25:47 -0600 Message-Id: <1013959548.596.40.camel@Thief> Mime-Version: 1.0 --=-Ogd+924LQqQ4Py0sOJJX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Have you considered RTFM? Or more specifically, the FAQ. Look for "mkpasswd -d". -Alex On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 06:05, Mattias Br=E4ndstr=F6m wrote: > Hi! >=20 > I have some questions about how cygwin determines what user I am logged=20 > in as on my Win2000 machine. >=20 > I have installed cygwin on my Win2000 machine and I am logged on that=20 > one as DOMAIN/userx. DOMAIN/userx is not a local user for my machine but=20 > a user in the domain DOMAIN. Now when I start cygwin 'id -un' reports=20 > that my username is Administrator and creates a home directory for me=20 > named /home/Administrator. That's not what I want. I want /home/userx as=20 > my home directory. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? >=20 > Regards, > Mattias >=20 >=20 > -- > 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/ >=20 >=20 --=-Ogd+924LQqQ4Py0sOJJX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAjxvy3sACgkQBPYwh6bSSDdzXwCeJyiZoR6QmOdymytf4Uol/Oxt 7G0AnRqnwmLH0LUN2yQp4MUDTgxRjYVj =S9Wt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Ogd+924LQqQ4Py0sOJJX--