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 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:27:52 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mattias_Br=E4ndstr=F6m?= To: Alex Malinovich cc: Subject: Re: how does cygwin see what user I am in windows? In-Reply-To: <1013959548.596.40.camel@Thief> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT After searching the FAQ for the phrase 'mkpasswd -d' I must report that it does not exist within the FAQ. Do you have any other information on where I can RTFM? On 17 Feb 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Have you considered RTFM? Or more specifically, the FAQ. Look for > "mkpasswd -d". > > -Alex > > On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 06:05, Mattias Brändström wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have some questions about how cygwin determines what user I am logged > > in as on my Win2000 machine. > > > > I have installed cygwin on my Win2000 machine and I am logged on that > > one as DOMAIN/userx. DOMAIN/userx is not a local user for my machine but > > a user in the domain DOMAIN. Now when I start cygwin 'id -un' reports > > that my username is Administrator and creates a home directory for me > > named /home/Administrator. That's not what I want. I want /home/userx as > > my home directory. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? > > > > Regards, > > Mattias > > > > > > -- > > 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/