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RE: why am I administrator?
- To: Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky at kurion 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 16:45:00 -0500
At 04:34 PM 1/10/2001, Dan Lipofsky wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
> > >USER is set in the /etc/profile function by issuing the `id -un`
> > >command. The id command gets it's name from the associated uid in the
> > >/etc/passwd file.
> > >
> > >I can also guess that you are in the local administrator group and
> > >logged on as a domain user. Upon setup a /etc/passwd file is created
> > >from the local sid. You need to add your domain sid for your user
> > >account.
>
> > This seems to come up allot. Maybe we need an FAQ for this?
>
>A FAQ would be great. Obviously there are major
>passwd differences between cygwin and unix.
>
>I set up a line in /etc/passwd for dlipofsky with
>a made-up UID and GID. This seems to work.
Actually, this surprises me. I would've thought you would have wanted to
change the name of the user in the /etc/passwd file that matched the output
of "id -u". This is what I have. Of course, I made my /etc/passwd with
mkpasswd which makes understanding what needs to be change moot AFAICS.
>So what happened before I had this? It sounds like it couldn't
>find dlipofsky so it just when with the default. Is that it?
It uses whatever name is associated with the current user id.
>Also what are the strings that look like
>S-1-5-21-839522115-1060284298-1708537768-500
That's the Windows ID. See the mail archives and the user documentation
on NTFS permissions for more info.
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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