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Re:Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows? by kyriakos on Sunday May 29, 2016 @11:26PM (#11799397)
The first version only run as root. From the second release they added user creation when installing.
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Re:Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows? by JdeBP on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @09:55AM (#11806494)
Actually, the first version never ran as root. It always ran as you, incorrectly reporting the user account.
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Re:Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows? by lj3 on Monday May 30, 2016 @12:12AM (#11799514)
Great! Maybe I should remove it and re-install and see if I can trigger that.
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Re:Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows? by pugwash on Monday May 30, 2016 @07:10PM (#11803733)
No need, you can use lxrun /setdefaultuser to change it.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/user_suppor...

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