Username hassles

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Paul Mead (Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:38:39 +0000 (UTC))
> Hi, I've got cygwin running on a work machine with a weird username 
allocated by
> IS dept. Somehow I managed to make the user name on cygwin to be 'paul' but all
> the files loaded by cygwin setup are owned by 'MEAD8998'. 
> 
> Is there any way (short of complete reinstallation) of changing cygwin so that
> it uses 'paul' as the user for these files?

Untested: /etc/passwd?


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