how does cygwin see what user I am in windows?
Alex Malinovich
demonbane@the-love-shack.net
Sun Feb 17 07:26:00 GMT 2002
Have you considered RTFM? Or more specifically, the FAQ. Look for
"mkpasswd -d".
-Alex
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 06:05, Mattias Brändström wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have some questions about how cygwin determines what user I am logged
> in as on my Win2000 machine.
>
> I have installed cygwin on my Win2000 machine and I am logged on that
> one as DOMAIN/userx. DOMAIN/userx is not a local user for my machine but
> a user in the domain DOMAIN. Now when I start cygwin 'id -un' reports
> that my username is Administrator and creates a home directory for me
> named /home/Administrator. That's not what I want. I want /home/userx as
> my home directory. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
>
> Regards,
> Mattias
>
>
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