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Creating a new user account in cygwin
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- Subject: Creating a new user account in cygwin
- From: Peter Allen <pallen at ipa dot harvard dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:03:21 -0500
After installing cygwin on win2k, my username
is Administrator (as reported by id -un). I
need to be a different user, so I tried editing
/etc/profile as
USER="foo"
cygwin now starts in /home/foo but whoami still
reports "Administrator"
I've checked all the info online, and can't figure
out how to be a different user.
If this is covered somewhere I didn't find online,
my apologies.
-Pete
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