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Re: Base-Files (was Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile?)


On Dec  4 10:08, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> What about USERNAME and USER?
> 
> Some time ago, I changed my /etc/passwd so that Administrator is
> called 'root' in Cygwin, but USERNAME still points to Administrator
> instead USER points to 'root'.
> 
> Following this discussion I would ask if we should have, in Cygwin,
> the initialization export USERNAME="$USER" in some place...

I don't see how this would be correct.  $USERNAME is a variable used
by Windows tools while $USER is used by POSIX tools.  If your Cygwin
username is different from the Windows username, then $USER and
$USERNAME reflect this in their respective world.


Corinna

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