Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C867FE8.1050203@cportcorp.com> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:45:28 -0500 From: Peter Buckley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barry Goldstein , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Prompt question References: <3.0.5.32.20020306154226.0097c7b0@pop.shore.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > == > Barry Goldstein Pequod Software > 124 Otis Street bag@shore.net > Newtonville, MA 02460-1846 +1-617-332-5758 (home) > U.S.A. +1-509-756-7445 (fax) > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/