At 01:25 PM 12/5/2004 -0600, Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: >On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >> Just type "mkpasswd -l" (assuming you are a local user) and send the output >> together with the name you use to login into Windows and the name reported >> by id -un. > >Thanks. Here it is: > >$ mkpasswd -l
<snip> >Rodrigo Braz:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1006:513:Rodrigo,U-RODRIGONOTEBOOK\Rodrigo >Braz,S-1-5-21-3615762775-3924064129-568730901-1006:/home/Rodrigo Braz:/bin/bash > >The Windows login name is "Rodrigo Braz", although now it changed to >"Rodrigo" on the screen (but looks like it is a superficial change). If the Windows login name is still "Rodrigo Braz", that means that you have not changed it. Have looked into Nick Coghlan's suggestion? >The cygwin page mentions running mkpassswd in a way that does change the >system, what is this way? "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" Cygwin relies on /etc/passwd for things such as "id -un" mkpasswd is a program that essentially dumps the Windows user database into a Unix like format. For example your Windows login name appears just after U-RODRIGONOTEBOOK\ above, while your "name" appears just before. So you should do what the faq says. Either change your Windows login name to something without space and run "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" or edit /etc/passwd and change the name (first field) in your record. You may also want to change your home directory (next to last field). Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
