USER environment variable mystery
Soren A
soren_andersen@fastmail.fm
Sat Nov 23 12:28:00 GMT 2002
Steve Núñez <nunez@helios.net> wrote around 22 Nov 2002
news:5.2.0.9.0.20021123115631.00ad1780@localhost:
> Does anyone know how to *really* change the environment variables?
You have the wrong env variable. Try setting USERNAME *in cygwin.bat* (how
can you expect to lie to Cygwin about who you are once you've logged in? --
there may be some way to do it but at first glance it doesn't sound
logical).
See if that works for you.
Soren A
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