My friend, Jeremy Bopp, let me know that if I use /etc/profile.d I could still get updates for /etc/profile unlike when you edit it directly (comment out USER="`id -un`"). I had to think of a way to change $USER from a different file so I came up with: </etc/profile.d/user.sh> # use Windows's USERNAME variable USER=$USERNAME export USER
</cygwin.bat> ... rem strip trailing slash on "directory paths" set "dp=%~dp0" if "%dp:~-1%" equ "\" ( set "dp=%dp:~0,-1%" ) ... set "USERNAME=[username]" set "HOME=%dp%\home\%USERNAME%" ... I made the USER variable use the Windows variable USERNAME (standard variable). From there I could change the USERNAME variable simply by setting to what I like. I included the HOME variable in my code snippet. I don't know if editting /etc/passwd will have the same behaviour as editting /etc/profile and I don't know if /etc/passwd will change if I take my Cygwin install to another computer. The main need for this hack was that I use Cygwin from a USB and the default behaviour of Cygwin is to use the currently logged in user which would mean I would have tons of different profiles. I thought this maybe useful for others to know so I decided to post here. Also, if anybody has suggestions please let me and everybody know. P.S. Still doesn't seem to work for SSH (ssh [user_to_use]@[machine]). Maybe problem with SSH? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
