Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:23:19 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: question about cygwin Message-ID: <20010419192319.O12557@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000701c0c8f2$401cbd40$3941a8c0@cyborg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000701c0c8f2$401cbd40$3941a8c0@cyborg>; from Allan@skovs.net on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:00:33PM +0200 On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:00:33PM +0200, Allan N. Skov wrote: > Hi, just a small question: > > Is cygwin compatible with Windows 2000? > > I have problems using ssh, it says: "you dont exist, go away", and the consol says: "I have no name!@CYBORG ~" and I cant find out how to change that, if i use login.exe, my win2000 username and passwords does not match, and I cant find out how to make a new user. For some reaon your /etc/passwd isn't configured. You didn't install via setup.exe or you updated your system from 9x, perhaps? Anyway, use mkpasswd and mkgroup tools to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files and care EXPLICITELY for the home dir and shell entries. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple