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Re: Prompt question
- From: Barry Goldstein <bag at shore dot net>
- To: Peter Buckley <peter dot buckley at cportcorp dot com>,cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 16:09:58 -0500
- Subject: Re: Prompt question
- References: <3.0.5.32.20020306154226.0097c7b0@pop.shore.net>
Sorry, but I'm a unix-newbie:
My /etc/passwd file is in fact a 0-byte file.
But when I type what you suggest
mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd
it just sits there for a long time (and so I kill it with Ctrl-C.
And 'man mkpasswd' says it knows not what I ask.
???
BG
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At 03:45 PM 3/6/2002 -0500, Peter Buckley wrote:
>I would guess it gets the "I have no name!" thing because you need to do
>a "mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd". I don't think your domain username is in
>the passwd file, so it doesn't know who you are.
>
>HTH,
>Peter
>
>
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>
>Barry Goldstein wrote:
>
>> In the bash shell, my prompt seems to be the two lines below
>> I have no name!@INUK ~
>> $
>> INUK is the machine name (NT4), and '~' is my home directory, but where
>> does the thing get the 'I have no name' thing and how can I change it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> BG
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