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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:36:29 +0000 (GMT) From: John Morrison X-X-Sender: john AT gateway DOT morrison To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Why cygwin says Administrator AT KOLESNIA when I am logged int to w2k as kolesnia? In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20021031084550.02b54e20@pop.rcn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 05:58 AM 10/31/2002, Alexey Kolesnikov wrote: > >Does anybody know why cygwin shows my name as "Administrator" however i am > >logged in w2k as user kolesnia? This user has administrator rights in w2k. > >Alexey. > > I'm going to point you in the general direction of the email archives for > this one. It's probably a worthwhile FAQ as well but an entry for it doesn't > exist yet. > start cygwin and run the following instructions... rm /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/profile cp /etc/profile.default /etc/profile /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh.done exit restart cygwin... whoami Best of luck, J. -- 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/