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Re: "unknown user" problem
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Dmitriy Kargapolov <dk at xoid dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:27:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: "unknown user" problem
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Dmitriy Kargapolov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've installed latest cygwin on my Win2000 using regular NT-user account
> (I have no administrator privileges) and I've got warning when starting
> cygwin:
> "id: cannot find name for user ID 20479"
> and I have next default prompt in bash:
> "I have no name!@<my machine name> ~"
> i.e. cygwin cannot determine my user name...
>
> Related problem - I can not use scp command - it fails with message:
> "unknown user 20479"
>
> next example:
> $ whoami
> whoami: cannot find username for UID 20479
>
> Does anybody know how to setup cygwin so it can distinguish my username?
>
> Might be it LDAP-related problem?
>
> Thanks in advance.
Dmitriy,
Looks like your /etc/passwd is not up to date (and probably /etc/group as
well). Is your user a domain user by any chance? If so, read
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MKPASSWD> for the usage
of the -d option.
Igor
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