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RE: why am I administrator?
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: why am I administrator?
- From: Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky at kurion dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:54:46 -0600
- Cc: Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky at kurion dot com>
Larry Hall wrote:
> At 03:22 PM 1/10/2001, 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.
> <snip>
>
> I believe USER is set in /etc/profile by setup. Take a look there and
> alter it as you wish.
It is. I see that it is set by
USER="`id -un`"
So the question then become "Why is id returning the wrong thing?".
I can change the line to set USER to $USERNAME, but perhaps there
is something else that should be fixed here.
- Dan
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