Tim Largy wrote: > I am having trouble running Cygwin as user X (not the real user name) > on a machine running Windows XP Professional SP2. > [snip various attempts to find out what makes 'X' different] >> I'm out of ideas. How can running Cygwin be different for user X? What > should I look at next? When you checked /etc/group, did you also check /etc/passwd? -- Matthew "Lost a planet, Obi Wan has? How embarrassing..." -- Yoda (Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones) -- 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/