From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8835 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2003 22:24:22 -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 8804 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2003 22:24:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailman.trilogy.com) (149.74.1.108) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 22:24:21 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: username problem MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: From: Ali.Naddaf@trilogy.com Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:24:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00365.txt.bz2 Hello everyone. Before I describe the problem, I wanted to ask to include my email address in the CC field if possible since I am not on the list. I have some problems which might be related. 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". 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. I also noticed that commands such as "chmod" or "chown" don't do anything. So for example "chmod a-r filename" doesn't change the "read" permission on the "filename" at all! This might be related to the above issue. I would appreciate any help. Thanks, Ali. -- 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/