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: <3.0.5.32.20020306160958.00970800@pop.shore.net> X-Sender: bag@pop.shore.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 16:09:58 -0500 To: Peter Buckley , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Barry Goldstein Subject: Re: Prompt question In-Reply-To: <3C867FE8.1050203@cportcorp.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20020306154226.0097c7b0@pop.shore.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 == 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/