Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Soren A Subject: Re: USER environment variable mystery Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:17:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Occasionally Sporadically Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <5.2.0.9.0.20021123115631.00ad1780@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: ny-kenton2a-951.buf.adelphia.net X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038071823 21600 24.51.95.183 (23 Nov 2002 17:17:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:17:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Xnews/L5 X-Archive: encrypt Steve Núñez wrote around 22 Nov 2002 news:5.2.0.9.0.20021123115631.00ad1780@localhost: > Does anyone know how to *really* change the environment variables? You have the wrong env variable. Try setting USERNAME *in cygwin.bat* (how can you expect to lie to Cygwin about who you are once you've logged in? -- there may be some way to do it but at first glance it doesn't sound logical). See if that works for you. Soren A -- Yes, it's really Sören, not Soren. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/