From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19568 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2003 22:45:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 19561 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2003 22:45:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail18.svr.pol.co.uk) (195.92.67.23) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 22:45:43 -0000 Received: from modem-2004.elephant.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.247.212] helo=webdev) by mail18.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18gYIS-00039g-00; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:45:37 +0000 Message-ID: <004a01c2cd68$81c63a60$d4f786d9@webdev> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , References: Subject: Re: username problem Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:45:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00368.txt.bz2 > I just installed the latest cygwin on my Win2K machine. When I open a > shell, my prompt is "t-ow@naddaf2". On the other hand, "id" reports my > username as "anaddaf" which is the username that I use when I login to my > Win2K machine. I saw similar postings and the suggested solution was to > update the /etc/passwd file but in my case, it won't do any good since my > /etc/password is identical to the "mkpassword -l". Are you sure they are exaclty the same. No changes in the Sid? Just to be on the safe side you should update your /etc/{passwd,group} file just to be certain that's not whats holding you back. > What is puzzling me is that the user "anaddaf" which "id" reports doesn't > even exist in the /etc/passwd, nor does "t-ow". When I open the shell, it > takes me to the /home/Administrator directory. If I create a file, the > "owner/group" of my file will be set to "anaddaf/mkgroup" and again > "mkgroup" doesn't even exist in the /etc/group file. Hmmmm tahts odd :-( What is the contents of your CYGWIN environment variable $ echo $CYGWIN Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn@exposure.org.uk www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/