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Re: whoami and ownership
- To: JROZYCKI at ebmail dot gdeb dot com,cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: whoami and ownership
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:26:02 -0400
At 01:00 PM 6/26/2001, JROZYCKI@ebmail.gdeb.com wrote:
>When I run whoami, it echoes "Administrator" but my NT login id is "jrozycki"
>
>How do I switch this so that when I create directories it puts the correct
>username? Mostly I want
>to fix this for ssh. When I run ssh - it keeps trying to create
>/home/Administrator/.ssh but can't.
>I have tried changing some environmental variables such as:
>export USER=jrozycki and export USERNAME=jrozycki but this did not work.
>
You should go looking in the email archives for Corinna's response to this
question. I forget the details although I know the solution is *not* to
change the /etc/passwd file as I once suggested. Too bad I only remember
the wrong way to do things. ;-)
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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