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RE: Why cygwin says Administrator@KOLESNIA when I am logged int to w2k as kolesnia?
- From: John Morrison <john at morrison dot mine dot nu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:55:06 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: RE: Why cygwin says Administrator@KOLESNIA when I am logged int to w2k as kolesnia?
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Vince Hoffman wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Morrison [mailto:john@morrison.mine.nu]
> > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > > At 05:58 AM 10/31/2002, Alexey Kolesnikov wrote:
> > > >Does anybody know why cygwin shows my name as
> > "Administrator" however i am
> > > >logged in w2k as user kolesnia? This user has
> > administrator rights in w2k.
> > > >Alexey.
> > >
> > > I'm going to point you in the general direction of the
> > email archives for
> > > this one. It's probably a worthwhile FAQ as well but an
> > entry for it doesn't
> > > exist yet.
> > >
> >
> > start cygwin and run the following instructions...
> >
> > rm /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/profile
> > cp /etc/profile.default /etc/profile
> > /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh.done
> > exit
>
> can i add here that you should then run mkpasswd -u <yourloginname> -d >>
> /etc/passwd
> if your user is a domain user
that would add you twice. Note that I said to run the .sh NOT
the .bat. The .sh *should* recognise that you are a user in a
domain and call the appropriate flags.
J.
>
>
>
> >
> > restart cygwin...
> >
> > whoami
> >
> > Best of luck,
> >
> > J.
> >
> >
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