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Re: Why isn't my NT username created for Cygwin USER?
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: "Rosenzweig, Daniel Z (Dan), NNAD" <danr at att dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:30:00 -0500
- Subject: Re: Why isn't my NT username created for Cygwin USER?
At 08:32 AM 12/6/2001, Rosenzweig, Daniel Z (Dan), NNAD wrote:
>In NT, I have a username, lets call it, 'myname', which has admin rights (for the local PC). When I did a
>try mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd it never created a listing for danr -- it created one for Administrator --- and that's what my $USER and home directory are set for. On the other hand, Cygwin set my $USERNAME to danr. What's going on here?
Checking the FAQ and email archives will give you some insights here.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
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