Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:26:42 -0400 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with 'I have no name' Message-ID: <20021021172642.GA567027@WORLDNET> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:15:59AM -0700, Matt Perry wrote: > I also thought that this was strange. Here is my entry in /etc/passwd: > > perrym3:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:81217:10513:Perry, Matt {Info~Pleasanton},U-RNUMDMA > S\perrym3,S-1-5-21-2116170847-193796598-433219294-71217://RPBMF106/perrym3$:/bin > /bash > > But when I log in and type 'id' I get the following: > > uid=15681 gid=10513 groups=544(Administrators),545(Users) Currently cygwin does not support uid > 0xFFFE. My (untested) recommendation is to edit passwd and change the uid to 15681. Pierre -- 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/