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RE: Why cygwin says Administrator@KOLESNIA when I am logged int to w2k as kolesnia?
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:13:23 -0000
- Subject: RE: Why cygwin says Administrator@KOLESNIA when I am logged int to w2k as kolesnia?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Morrison [mailto:john@morrison.mine.nu]
> Sent: 31 October 2002 14:36
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Why cygwin says Administrator@KOLESNIA when I am
> logged int
> to w2k as kolesnia?
>
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > At 05:58 AM 10/31/2002, Alexey Kolesnikov wrote:
> > >Does anybody know why cygwin shows my name as
> "Administrator" however i am
> > >logged in w2k as user kolesnia? This user has
> administrator rights in w2k.
> > >Alexey.
> >
> > I'm going to point you in the general direction of the
> email archives for
> > this one. It's probably a worthwhile FAQ as well but an
> entry for it doesn't
> > exist yet.
> >
>
> start cygwin and run the following instructions...
>
> rm /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/profile
> cp /etc/profile.default /etc/profile
> /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh.done
> exit
can i add here that you should then run mkpasswd -u <yourloginname> -d >>
/etc/passwd
if your user is a domain user
>
> restart cygwin...
>
> whoami
>
> Best of luck,
>
> J.
>
>
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