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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:36:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: John Morrison <john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu>
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Subject: Re: Why cygwin says Administrator AT KOLESNIA when I am logged  int to
 w2k as kolesnia?
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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.


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