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RE: login account is "Administrator" not "username"




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bleyer, Michael [mailto:MBleyer@DEFiNiENS.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 7:13 PM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: login account is "Administrator" not "username"
> 
> 
> 
> I am logged in as user "jdoe" and have administrator rights 
> on a WinNT box.
> I installed the most recent stable cygwin on this box (logged 
> in as user
> "jdoe"), usable for "all".
> 
> However, the cygwin shell tells me:
> ~ $ whoami
> Administrator
> 
> and gives me the following environment variable settings:
> USER=Administrator
> USERNAME=jdoe

If you are on NT and logged in as Domain user (not a local user) this may be
related to the /etc/passwd setting. As already discussed on this list you
get strange results when logged in as a Domain user if you keep th enormal
/etc/passwd and /etc/group files as created initially by Cygwin.

You *must* in this case be sure you have an entry for your user/group in the
proper files. For that there is two solutions:

1) You have a relatively small NT Domain (less than a thousand user perhaps)
and you can simply do:

	$ mkpasswd -d -l > /etc/passwd
	$ mkgroup -d -l > /etc/group

This will last for a minute or so (for about 100 entries it takes less than
10 seconds) and you should be up and running.

2) You have a *huge* NT Domain; then just create the entries needed in
/etc/passwd (/etc/group should be sufficiently small to be created
normally):

	$ mkgroup -d -l > /etc/group
	$ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
	$ mkpasswd -u jdoe -d >> /etc/passwd

> 
> and consequently:
> ~ $ pwd
> /home/Administrator
> 

Here you should then get your normal NT home (%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%)

> 
> Obviously cygwin logs me in as "Administrator" instead of "jdoe", even
> though I logged in as user jdoe under WinNT
> (USERNAME=jdoe in a DOS box).
> Is there a way to change/avoid this? I tried installing 
> cygwin as "usable
> only for me" but it's just the same.
> I've tried the registry, FAQ and mailing list archives to no avail.
> 
> A problem arises when I use cvs for example, as it gets my 
> username from the
> env variable USER and all my files get checked in from user 
> "Administrator"
> as opposed to "jdoe". I could of course hack around this, but 
> maybe there is
> a simpler solution?
> 
> Thanks for any help,

You're welcome

	Bernard

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