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Re: Username hassles
"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> writes:
>
> Ownerships won't change. You're only telling Cygwin that the name
> to display for your user is "MEAD8998" rather than "paul". The user
> id (or SID in Windows) will not change (and you shouldn't change it
> in '/etc/passwd'). This is all "details" but since you asked the
> question, I figured the details where what you wanted. ;-)
Thanks Larry, I'll avoid changing the file in that case.
Is there any way of dealing with this problem?
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