X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Username hassles Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:02:43 +0200 Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.80.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 * Paul Mead (Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:38:39 +0000 (UTC)) > Hi, I've got cygwin running on a work machine with a weird username allocated by > IS dept. Somehow I managed to make the user name on cygwin to be 'paul' but all > the files loaded by cygwin setup are owned by 'MEAD8998'. > > Is there any way (short of complete reinstallation) of changing cygwin so that > it uses 'paul' as the user for these files? Untested: /etc/passwd? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple