RE: login account is "Administrator" not "username"

RE: login account is "Administrator" not "username"

[Bleyer, Michael]

Thanx for your quick advice (it works). May I suggest an extension (add to
FAQ?):

change the batch file cygwin.bat as follows:

### snip ###
@echo off
C:
chdir \cygwin

bin\grep -q %USERNAME%: etc\passwd
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO setuppass
goto start

:setuppass
bin\mkpasswd -l > etc\passwd
bin\mkpasswd -d | grep %USERNAME% >> etc\passwd

:start
chdir \cygwin\bin
bash --login -i

### snap ###

This checks if the WinNT domain USERNAME is already in the passwd file. If
not, it gets appended.
So this works automatically even with a user switching machines (first time
login) without the necessity to add all domain users to every machine.
Of course in big domains mkpasswd -d causes a delay, but that will only
happen once during first-time login.

Alternatively, how about an option/script that runs from setup.exe, by
default asking to add the current WinNT user to the passwd file?

greetings,
Michael

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Re: login account is "Administrator" not "username"

[Dennis W. Bulgrien]

Edit /etc/passwd and change:

DBulgrien:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11158:10513:Dennis
Bulgrien,U-VCSD\DBulgrien,S-1-5-21-1346715644-1892305490-5522801-1158://ntsr
vr/Users/dbulgrien:/bin/bash

from "//ntsrvr/Users/DBulgrien" to "/home/dbulgrien".





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Re: login account is "Administrator" not "username"

[Dennis W. Bulgrien]

Same problem as Michael had.  I ran mkpasswd and mkgroup as recommened.  My
login prompt now says Dbulgrien@DBULGRIEN (my NT server login is dbulgrien,
pc's name is DBULGRIEN).  LS shows the contents of my NT server home
directory rather than a cygwin local drive home directory;
C:\cygwin\home\administrator\ exists but C:\cygwin\home\dbulgrien\ does not.
How do I fix that?

"Bernard Dautrevaux" <Dautrevaux@microprocess.com> wrote in message
news:17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E4EC@IIS000...

> $ mkpasswd -d -l > /etc/passwd
> $ mkgroup -d -l > /etc/group






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RE: login account is "Administrator" not "username"

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bleyer, Michael [mailto:MBleyer@DEFiNiENS.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 7:13 PM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: login account is "Administrator" not "username"
> 
> 
> 
> I am logged in as user "jdoe" and have administrator rights 
> on a WinNT box.
> I installed the most recent stable cygwin on this box (logged 
> in as user
> "jdoe"), usable for "all".
> 
> However, the cygwin shell tells me:
> ~ $ whoami
> Administrator
> 
> and gives me the following environment variable settings:
> USER=Administrator
> USERNAME=jdoe

If you are on NT and logged in as Domain user (not a local user) this may be
related to the /etc/passwd setting. As already discussed on this list you
get strange results when logged in as a Domain user if you keep th enormal
/etc/passwd and /etc/group files as created initially by Cygwin.

You *must* in this case be sure you have an entry for your user/group in the
proper files. For that there is two solutions:

1) You have a relatively small NT Domain (less than a thousand user perhaps)
and you can simply do:

	$ mkpasswd -d -l > /etc/passwd
	$ mkgroup -d -l > /etc/group

This will last for a minute or so (for about 100 entries it takes less than
10 seconds) and you should be up and running.

2) You have a *huge* NT Domain; then just create the entries needed in
/etc/passwd (/etc/group should be sufficiently small to be created
normally):

	$ mkgroup -d -l > /etc/group
	$ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
	$ mkpasswd -u jdoe -d >> /etc/passwd

> 
> and consequently:
> ~ $ pwd
> /home/Administrator
> 

Here you should then get your normal NT home (%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%)

> 
> Obviously cygwin logs me in as "Administrator" instead of "jdoe", even
> though I logged in as user jdoe under WinNT
> (USERNAME=jdoe in a DOS box).
> Is there a way to change/avoid this? I tried installing 
> cygwin as "usable
> only for me" but it's just the same.
> I've tried the registry, FAQ and mailing list archives to no avail.
> 
> A problem arises when I use cvs for example, as it gets my 
> username from the
> env variable USER and all my files get checked in from user 
> "Administrator"
> as opposed to "jdoe". I could of course hack around this, but 
> maybe there is
> a simpler solution?
> 
> Thanks for any help,

You're welcome

	Bernard

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Re: login account is "Administrator" not "username"

[Peter Buckley]

Look at the file /etc/passwd. Is your jdoe username in there? If you are 
in a windows NT domain, and jdoe is a domain user, you will need to type 
"mkpasswd -u jdoe >> /etc/passwd" from a bash shell to create an entry 
for jdoe. Alternately you can use "mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd" to 
populate the passwd file with all domain users.

HTH,
Peter

Bleyer, Michael wrote:

> I am logged in as user "jdoe" and have administrator rights on a WinNT box.
> I installed the most recent stable cygwin on this box (logged in as user
> "jdoe"), usable for "all".
> 
> However, the cygwin shell tells me:
> ~ $ whoami
> Administrator
> 
> and gives me the following environment variable settings:
> USER=Administrator
> USERNAME=jdoe
> 
> and consequently:
> ~ $ pwd
> /home/Administrator
> 
> 
> Obviously cygwin logs me in as "Administrator" instead of "jdoe", even
> though I logged in as user jdoe under WinNT
> (USERNAME=jdoe in a DOS box).
> Is there a way to change/avoid this? I tried installing cygwin as "usable
> only for me" but it's just the same.
> I've tried the registry, FAQ and mailing list archives to no avail.
> 
> A problem arises when I use cvs for example, as it gets my username from the
> env variable USER and all my files get checked in from user "Administrator"
> as opposed to "jdoe". I could of course hack around this, but maybe there is
> a simpler solution?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
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login account is "Administrator" not "username"

[Bleyer, Michael]

I am logged in as user "jdoe" and have administrator rights on a WinNT box.
I installed the most recent stable cygwin on this box (logged in as user
"jdoe"), usable for "all".

However, the cygwin shell tells me:
~ $ whoami
Administrator

and gives me the following environment variable settings:
USER=Administrator
USERNAME=jdoe

and consequently:
~ $ pwd
/home/Administrator


Obviously cygwin logs me in as "Administrator" instead of "jdoe", even
though I logged in as user jdoe under WinNT
(USERNAME=jdoe in a DOS box).
Is there a way to change/avoid this? I tried installing cygwin as "usable
only for me" but it's just the same.
I've tried the registry, FAQ and mailing list archives to no avail.

A problem arises when I use cvs for example, as it gets my username from the
env variable USER and all my files get checked in from user "Administrator"
as opposed to "jdoe". I could of course hack around this, but maybe there is
a simpler solution?

Thanks for any help,
Michael



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