From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: ssh: "you don't exist. go away" and others
21 May 1998 15:48:20 GMT
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In article <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 19980520140339 DOT 00929a30 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT mail DOT ra DOT pae DOT osd DOT mil>,
Matthew Patton <matthew DOT patton AT ra DOT pae DOT osd DOT mil> wrote:
>I just so happened to figure out why I was getting this message. It's
>because I didn't have an /etc/passwd file. So how come this isn't in the
>"new users' guide" of things to do once installation is done?

Patches are welcome.

>Less says my terminal is not fully functional. What do others use for their
>TERM variable? I have /etc/termcap symlinked to /usr/X11R6.3/etc/termcap. I
>have a fair number of symlinks (/etc is itself a symlink). Is this a problem?

Your TERM environment variable should be set to "linux".

cgf
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