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From: Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Why cygwin says Administrator AT KOLESNIA when I am logged  int 
	to w2k as kolesnia?
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:13:23 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Morrison [mailto:john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu]
> Sent: 31 October 2002 14:36
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Why cygwin says Administrator AT KOLESNIA when I am 
> logged int
> to w2k as kolesnia?
> 
> 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

can i add here that you should then run mkpasswd -u <yourloginname> -d >>
/etc/passwd
if your user is a domain user



> 
> restart cygwin...
> 
> whoami
> 
> Best of luck,
> 
> J.
> 
> 
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