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Re: why am I administrator?
- To: Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky at kurion dot com>,"'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: why am I administrator?
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:26:43 -0500
- Cc: Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky at kurion dot com>
At 03:22 PM 1/10/2001, Dan Lipofsky wrote:
>I installed the latest cygwin on my Win2000Pro machine.
>I was administrator when I installed it, but I am now
>trying to use it while logged on as dlipofsky. However,
>cygwin still thinks I am administrator. How can I fix this?
>
>USER=administrator but USERNAME=dlipofsky.
>USERNAME is set by the OS. Here is a dump of some enviroment
>variables, from bash and from the DOS prompt respectively.
<snip>
I believe USER is set in /etc/profile by setup. Take a look there and
alter it as you wish.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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