login account is "Administrator" not "username"

[Peter Buckley]

Look at the file /etc/passwd. Is your jdoe username in there? If you are 
in a windows NT domain, and jdoe is a domain user, you will need to type 
"mkpasswd -u jdoe >> /etc/passwd" from a bash shell to create an entry 
for jdoe. Alternately you can use "mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd" to 
populate the passwd file with all domain users.

HTH,
Peter

Bleyer, Michael wrote:

> I am logged in as user "jdoe" and have administrator rights on a WinNT box.
> I installed the most recent stable cygwin on this box (logged in as user
> "jdoe"), usable for "all".
> 
> However, the cygwin shell tells me:
> ~ $ whoami
> Administrator
> 
> and gives me the following environment variable settings:
> USER=Administrator
> USERNAME=jdoe
> 
> and consequently:
> ~ $ pwd
> /home/Administrator
> 
> 
> Obviously cygwin logs me in as "Administrator" instead of "jdoe", even
> though I logged in as user jdoe under WinNT
> (USERNAME=jdoe in a DOS box).
> Is there a way to change/avoid this? I tried installing cygwin as "usable
> only for me" but it's just the same.
> I've tried the registry, FAQ and mailing list archives to no avail.
> 
> A problem arises when I use cvs for example, as it gets my username from the
> env variable USER and all my files get checked in from user "Administrator"
> as opposed to "jdoe". I could of course hack around this, but maybe there is
> a simpler solution?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
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