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Re: why am I administrator?
- To: Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky at kurion dot com>
- Subject: Re: why am I administrator?
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:07:36 -0500
- CC: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <81CC73FC2FACD311A2D200508B8B88AA1ADB05@kurion_exch.kurion.com>
- Reply-To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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.
>
USER is set in the /etc/profile function by issuing the `id -un`
command. The id command gets it's name from the associated uid in the
/etc/passwd file.
I can also guess that you are in the local administrator group and
logged on as a domain user. Upon setup a /etc/passwd file is created
from the local sid. You need to add your domain sid for your user
account.
Cheers,
Earnie.
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