Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <39F06B14.EB1982FE@nca.asu.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:56:04 -0700 From: "C. R. Oldham" Organization: NCA Commission on Schools X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Krug CC: Cygwin Subject: Re: Not being "administrator" References: <20001020115209.F24370@pentek.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charles Krug wrote: > List: > > I log in to WinNT as "administrator." Consequently, my Cygwin setup calls me > administrator. I'd like to tell Cygwin that I'm not administrator but > charles. How do I best go about this? Actually the "right" way to do this would be to create an NT user called Charles and assign him to the Administrators group. Then you still have administrator rights. At the same time you can lock down the Administrator account to help secure your box. -- / C. R. (Charles) Oldham | NCA Commission on Schools \ / Director of Technology | Arizona State University \ / cro@nca.asu.edu | V:480-965-8703 F:480-965-9423 \ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com