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Ed <ed@telestoconsulting.com> writes:

> I am trying to use RCS. When I lock a file it seems to work but shows
> that the file is EHartnett. How does it know my name? I never set that
> anywhere...
>
> How do I tell emacs and RCS what my user name is, so that they both
> argee as to who I am?

It probably uses `user-login-name' or `user-real-login-name'.  Try 

   `M-x apropos-value RET EHartnett'

to learn which variables have the value "EHartnett".