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Date:	Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:45:28 -0500
From:	Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
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To:	Barry Goldstein <bag AT shore DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Prompt question
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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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