On Dec 4 10:08, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > What about USERNAME and USER? > > Some time ago, I changed my /etc/passwd so that Administrator is > called 'root' in Cygwin, but USERNAME still points to Administrator > instead USER points to 'root'. > > Following this discussion I would ask if we should have, in Cygwin, > the initialization export USERNAME="$USER" in some place...
I don't see how this would be correct. $USERNAME is a variable used by Windows tools while $USER is used by POSIX tools. If your Cygwin username is different from the Windows username, then $USER and $USERNAME reflect this in their respective world. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
