How do I change my user name?

[Ken Dibble]

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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