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, 3 Feb 2003 10:55:18 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: Max Bowsher To: Anton Avramov cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bug: cygwin-1.3.19-1 after instaling user is not properly resolved In-Reply-To: <000a01c2cb71$02037840$6c01a8c0@aanton> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: mob22@imap.hermes.cam.ac.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by delorie.com id h13AteM10624 On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Anton Avramov wrote: > After instaling upgrading to cygwin-1.3.19-1 the user is not properly > resolved > istead of the old promp username@computer. I get ?щ"@computer or some other > strange asccii codes. > The home directory is set to /cygdrive/c > if i start bash from the already running bash, it's starts working normaly Sounds like your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files are out-of-date. Regenerate them: $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd $ mkgroup -l > /etc/group Unless you are on a Windows domain, in which case you will need other options to mkpasswd and mkgroup. Max. -- 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/