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cgwyn



There is a FAQ that comes close, but only if your user name is the same as 
your NT login. However, I think by specifying the NT SID with a user name, 
it should work.,
"Scott Prive" wrote:
> Good question... I've wondered this myself. I tried resetting $USER and $USER
> NAME, but this doesn't fix it for me. I am running as a non-Administrator acc
> ount (with Admin rights), and the Cygwin shell thinks I am "Administrator".
> 
> (Thankfully, overriding $HOME works just fine.)
> 
> I'd suggest posting a question to cygwin at cygwin.com. I have already checked t
> he Cygwin list archives: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/
> 
> -Scott
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:57 AM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: cgwyn
> 
> 
> Just a quick question regarding cgwyn. 
> I just installed it on my Win2K system here at work. The quesiton is how 
> does one change the user id. 
> It defaults to the administrator@<host>.<domain>
> 
> The startup script simply invokes bash --login -i through a simple DOS 
> script. 
> 
> However, I found that it does have an x server, so that you don't need to 
> install Hummingbird or other commercial X servers. 
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