From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Trouble using whoami and others
6 Apr 1998 16:30:27 -0700
Message-ID: <199804061103.EAA06083.cygnus.gnu-win32@rtl.cygnus.com>
References: <006401bd5fab$f3493730$6d66b498 AT pclink DOT dynip DOT com>
Content-Type: text
To: cwilson AT pclink DOT dynip DOT com (Christopher Wilson)
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Christopher Wilson wrote:
> 
> Don't know how to fix this problem;
> I or another user types 'whoami' and get this responce:
> 
> whoami: cannot find username for UID 500

At this point in Cygwin32's development, you need to create
/etc including /etc/group and /etc/passwd using mkgroup and mkpasswd
(provided with the tools).

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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