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Re: Username hassles
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:02:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: Username hassles
- References: <loom.20090713T123539-571@post.gmane.org>
* Paul Mead (Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:38:39 +0000 (UTC))
> Hi, I've got cygwin running on a work machine with a weird username
allocated by
> IS dept. Somehow I managed to make the user name on cygwin to be 'paul' but all
> the files loaded by cygwin setup are owned by 'MEAD8998'.
>
> Is there any way (short of complete reinstallation) of changing cygwin so that
> it uses 'paul' as the user for these files?
Untested: /etc/passwd?
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