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I'm logged in to my Win XP machine as, e.g., DOMAIN\someUser, but
"id -un" from any Cygwin bash shell returns "Administrator".

Is this wrong, or am I missing something? Shouldn't it return
"someUser"?

The userid DOMAIN\someUser is a member of the local Administrators
group. Does that matter?

If you check your environment variables, I'll be you'll see one
named USER and one named USERNAME.  And I guess "id -un" gets the
username from the wrong variable.

I know that if you use \u in a prompt string, then it will get the
username from the USER environment variable, but the Windows login
name is in the USERNAME environment variable, so in my
~/.bash_profile i have

    #
    # The \u in the prompt is based on the USER variable, but use
    # the USERNAME variable instead, if non-empty.
    #
    USER=${USER:-$USERNAME}

Did this help?

Peter

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I think it should. I my account name when logged on to my W98.

Quote:>If you check your environment variables, I'll be you'll see one
>named USER and one named USERNAME.  And I guess "id -un" gets the
>username from the wrong variable.

At least on unix side, id doesn't rely on the environment; it uses the
OS calls (which also don't rely on the environment variables). I don't
know what would be the corresponding Win32 calls, and whether or not
they rely on the environment variables.

Also, id is a standalone program, and not dependent on bash, so bash has
no function here.
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True, but for all I know, id on Cygwin uses environment variables
as a fall-back method, and .bash_profile is a reasonable place to
set environment variables.

Peter

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Actually, what led me down this path in the first place was the
following code in the Cygwin /etc/profile:

#--------------------------------
USER="`id -un`"

# Set up USER's home directory
if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
  HOME="/home/$USER"
fi
#--------------------------------

My home directory was always being set to /home/Administrator. Yeah, I
override this, now that I see what's happening, but ...

USERNAME appears to be correct in the Cygwin environment, i.e.,
someUser -- same as in the Windows environment.

Still mystified,

Charles