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: <4.3.1.2.20010110161318.021f0e48@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 16:14:07 -0500 To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" , Dan Lipofsky From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: why am I administrator? Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" In-Reply-To: <3A5CCF18.972783C1@yahoo.com> References: <81CC73FC2FACD311A2D200508B8B88AA1ADB05@kurion_exch.kurion.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:07 PM 1/10/2001, Earnie Boyd wrote: >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. > > > >USER is set in the /etc/profile function by issuing the `id -un` >command. The id command gets it's name from the associated uid in the >/etc/passwd file. > >I can also guess that you are in the local administrator group and >logged on as a domain user. Upon setup a /etc/passwd file is created >from the local sid. You need to add your domain sid for your user >account. > >Cheers, >Earnie. This seems to come up allot. Maybe we need an FAQ for this? 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