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: <4.3.1.2.20010110155947.021d3568@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:02:15 -0500 To: Dan Lipofsky , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: RE: why am I administrator? Cc: Dan Lipofsky In-Reply-To: <81CC73FC2FACD311A2D200508B8B88AA1ADB06@kurion_exch.kurion. com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:54 PM 1/10/2001, Dan Lipofsky wrote: >Larry Hall wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > I believe USER is set in /etc/profile by setup. Take a look there and > > alter it as you wish. > >It is. I see that it is set by > USER="`id -un`" >So the question then become "Why is id returning the wrong thing?". >I can change the line to set USER to $USERNAME, but perhaps there >is something else that should be fixed here. Yes, thanks for that reminder about how USER is set (I don't use setup myself;-)) You want to edit your /etc/passwd to set your user name correctly for your user id. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple