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Re: No username for userid?
- From: Collin Grady <cgrady at willamette dot edu>
- To: Daniel Rosenzweig <danielzr at netzero dot net>
- Cc: Cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:00:23 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: No username for userid?
try mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
-Collin
Descartes was sitting in a bar. The bartender comes up and asks if he wants another. "I think not," he says, and promptly vanishes.
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Daniel Rosenzweig wrote:
> I just installed (using setup.exe) cygwin on an NT 4 machine....
> The sh prompt tells me that I don't have a username --- when I do
> an 'id' I get a uid, but no name... when I try to rlogin (even with -l )it
> tells me that I don't have a username... I have a $USERNAME btw.
> There is no /etc/passwd file...
>
> Any ideas how can I get a username! (Are there really 'logins' for
> Cygwin?)
>
> Thanks.
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