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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:26:43 -0500
To: Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky@kurion.com>,
        "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
Subject: Re: why am I administrator?
Cc: Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky@kurion.com>
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At 03:22 PM 1/10/2001, Dan Lipofsky wrote:
>I installed the latest cygwin on my Win2000Pro machine.
>I was administrator when I installed it, but I am now
>trying to use it while logged on as dlipofsky.  However,
>cygwin still thinks I am administrator.  How can I fix this?
>
>USER=administrator but USERNAME=dlipofsky.
>USERNAME is set by the OS.  Here is a dump of some enviroment
>variables, from bash and from the DOS prompt respectively.
<snip>

I believe USER is set in /etc/profile by setup.  Take a look there and
alter it as you wish.



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RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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