Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/06/16:18:03
Hmm... I thought that when cygwin was installed, it did "mkpasswd -l >>
/etc/passwd", so there was at least something in /etc/passwd. Do you in
fact have a file in c:\cygwin\bin named mkpasswd.exe?
It actually should just sit there for a long time when you do "mkpasswd
-d >> /etc/passwd". It is adding all the users from the NT domain to the
passwd file. You can do a "mkpasswd -d | grep bgoldstein >>
/etc/passwd", that will take the same amount of time but only put your
username in the passwd file (where bgoldstein is your username).
HTH,
Peter
Barry Goldstein wrote:
> 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
>
> =================
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>--
>>1 Timothy 4:12 (NIV)- Don't let anyone look down on you because you are
>>young, but set an example for the believers
>>in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity.
>>
>>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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