uid is 0 on first open of cygwin window, nonzero next time

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 1/25/2012 11:24 AM, Saurabh T wrote:
>
> When I open a cygwin window for the first time (that is, when no other
> cygwin window is open), uid and group are 0 (superuser/root; however
> username is correctly mentioned). Upon subsequent opens (without closing the
> first), a reasonable uid is set (1004). This is with latest cygwin, bash
> shell, on windows 7. What might be the problem?

Not sure.  How would one attempt to reproduce the behavior you're seeing?
Can you provide cygcheck output as requested by the problem reporting link
below?

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