Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020306165645.00984c90@pop.shore.net> X-Sender: bag AT pop DOT shore DOT net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 16:56:45 -0500 To: Peter Buckley From: Barry Goldstein Subject: Re: Prompt question Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <3C868DD7.7030005@cportcorp.com> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 20020306154226 DOT 0097c7b0 AT pop DOT shore DOT net> <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 20020306160958 DOT 00970800 AT pop DOT shore DOT net> <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 20020306163817 DOT 00972650 AT pop DOT shore DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:44 PM 3/6/2002 -0500, Peter Buckley wrote: >Aha. Sounds like it might be a problem with the space in the name. I am >not sure how to work around that with mkpasswd. But you could probably >do a "mkpasswd -l >> /etc/passwd" (I didn't realize you weren't in a >domain environment). > >You can also try Corinna's suggestion about "mkpasswd -u "Barry >Goldstein" >> /etc/passwd", or maybe "mkpasswd -u Barry\ Goldstein >> >/etc/passwd". Note that the space needs to be quoted. > >About the colors, are you checking off "modify the shortcut which >started this window"? It sounds like you are only modifying the one >window, and so the next command window has the same bad colors. > >HTH, >Peter Aha! I did the mkpasswd -l and got all this in the passwd file: Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0:: SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:54 4:,S-1-5-32-544:: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:Barry Goldstein,U-INUK\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1269515077-1808626588-709306599-500: /home/Administrator:/bin/bash Barry Goldstein:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:Barry Goldstein,U-INUK\Barry Goldstein,S-1-5-21-1269515077-1808626588-709306599-1000:/home/Barry Goldstein:/bin/bash Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-INUK\Guest,S-1-5-21 -1269515077-1808626588-709306599-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash I was at first disappointed to see that I still had no name, but of course I had to kill and restart cygwin and now, lo and behold, I am once again Barry Goldstein. Imagine my relief! As for the colors, yes, I told it to modify the shortcut that started the window. I think there's something in the prompt strings that undoes that and sets the colors with some sort of odd ANSI strings. The prompt strings are PS1=$'\\[\\033]0;\\w\\007\n\\033[32m\\]\\u@\\h \\[\\033[33m\\w\\033[0m\\]\n$ ' PS2='> ' PS4='+ ' I'm not sure where these should be set, but I'll go read the bash man pages. Suggestions are welcome (I'll settle for bright-green-on-black). Thanks very much for the help. BG == Barry Goldstein Pequod Software 124 Otis Street bag AT shore DOT 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/