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Re: How do I change my user name?
- From: Ken Dibble <kdibbleNOSPAM at alltel dot net>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:22:19 -0600
- Subject: Re: How do I change my user name?
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0411121614430.17781@apollo>
You should be able to manually edit /etc/passwd.
Just change your username there.
Regards,
Ken
Samuel Hund wrote:
Unfortunately I need to change my user name on cygwin from the one used by
XP. I tried adding a mkgroup and useradd, but neither worked. Can you
help?
sam
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