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From: Peter Allen <pallen AT ipa DOT harvard DOT edu>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Creating a new user account in cygwin
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:03:21 -0500
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After installing cygwin on win2k, my username
is Administrator (as reported by id -un).  I
need to be a different user, so I tried editing
/etc/profile as

USER="foo"

cygwin now starts in /home/foo but whoami still
reports "Administrator"

I've checked all the info online, and can't figure
out how to be a different user.

If this is covered somewhere I didn't find online,
my apologies.

-Pete

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