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: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:19:48 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: user name Message-ID: <20010822081948.G17561@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3B833D94.8E871932@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B833D94.8E871932@nc.rr.com>; from zzhang@nc.rr.com on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:05:24PM -0700 On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:05:24PM -0700, Ze Zhang wrote: > I have just installed cygwin. The shell prompt shows > "I have no name!@Equestrian/home " > > How do I get a usename ? Is it supose to be like unix/linux, where > you can adduser ? or cygwin suppose to pickup info from WINDOWS. It picks up the name from /etc/passwd by calling `id' in /etc/profile. Check your /etc/passwd. If unsure, regenerate it using `mkpasswd'. While you're at it regenerate /etc/group by using `mkgroup'. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/