$USERNAME != $USER ($USERNAME = Win NT name)

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 08:15 PM 12/6/2001, Daniel Rosenzweig wrote:
>In NT, I have a username, lets call it, 'myname', which has admin rights
>(for the local PC). When I did a try mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd it never
>created a listing  for danr -- it created one for Administrator --- and
>that's what my $USER and home directory are set for. On the other hand,
>Cygwin set my $USERNAME to 'myname'. What's going on here?


Since you're repeating your question, I'll repeat my answer:

Checking the FAQ and email archives will give you some insights here.




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