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 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: No userid Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:40:11 -0700 Message-ID: From: "Fox, Michael K" To: "Doug Jenkinson" Cc: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jun 2003 16:40:12.0219 (UTC) FILETIME=[481DA8B0:01C33A6F] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h5OHTXM21962 I fixed the typo (removed the extra 8). I assume this is what you meant me see. But that didn't solve the problem. > From: Doug Jenkinson > Take a look at the second to last parameter, that's the home directory. > > I have tried modifying the fourth line of the passwd file as follows > > > > foo7873:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-E182960\Administrator, > > S-1-5-21-1061762173-587356633-675955863-500:/home/foo78783:/bin/bash > > > > After this, when I restart Cygwin and type whoami the answer is > > foo7873, but Cygwin still thinks my home directory should be > > /home/Administrator and creates a new folder by that name. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/