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: <3C868761.7090904@cportcorp.com> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 16:17:21 -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 CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Prompt question References: <3.0.5.32.20020306154226.0097c7b0@pop.shore.net> <3.0.5.32.20020306160958.00970800@pop.shore.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 >>> > > == > 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/