I was able to achieve the desired result without modifiying /etc/passwd.
What I did was expand /etc/profile.d/user.sh to:
# use Windows's USERNAME variable
USER=$USERNAME
export USER
HOME=/home/$USER
export HOME
Next I zeroed out /etc/passwd so it was a blank file. Combine these
together and SSH
On Mar 10 21:24, Jay Adams wrote:
> Shouldn't there be a tool in Cygwin that will give you the SID?
mkpasswd -c
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Shouldn't there be a tool in Cygwin that will give you the SID? After
all, it does have to read it too! I do like Sys Internals, but they add
regkeys which I don't like. Also, isn't setting the SID a bit static?
What would happen if I wanted to change usernames again? So I ask, is
there a way to dy
On 3/8/2011 9:03 PM, Jay Adams wrote:
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 hav
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 $USER
from a different file so I came up with:
# use Windows's USERNAME variable
USER=$USERN
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