Cygwin user name without domain

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I am working on a windows machine that is maintained by our IT department. My user account me lives in a domain dom, which leads to my cygwin user name being dom+me. This is inconvenient because my user name is just me on all other machines that I want to talk to with ssh and so on. Is there a way to remove or hide the dom+ part from cygwin?

Some additional details: My cygwin home directory is /home/me, so that part is fine. Whoami replies dom+me, ssh asks for dom+me's password if I do not specify a user name.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 12 '16 at 15:34

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ssh can be told to override the default user name by adding the following lines to the file ~/.ssh/config:

Host *
    User me

Afterwards, ssh and scp use the default user name me.

answered Jan 12 '16 at 15:34

klimpergeist

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I tried the same but it did not work.. Is there anything else to be taken care @klimpergeist? – Bhargav Kumar R Oct 25 '18 at 12:03
@BhargavKumarR, I don't think so. You could try running ssh in verbose mode (-v) to get more information on how ssh is trying to connect. – klimpergeist Oct 26 '18 at 20:47

Cygwin user name without domain

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