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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:18:22 +0100 (CET)
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT gmx DOT net>
X-X-Sender: ptsekov AT moria DOT atlanticsky DOT com
To: James Begley <james AT hafro DOT is>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.19/bash prompt bug
In-Reply-To: <200301311157.h0VBv1ZY028210@hafbeit.hafro.is>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301311317030.18664-100000@moria.atlanticsky.com>
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Hello,

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, James Begley wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have just upgraded to the most recent version (1.3.19) of the cygwin dll, and 
> I have small, weird problem.  The bash prompt no longer shows the username 
> correctly - see examples below.  I am running cygwin from a Win2000 machine, 
> with service pack 3 installed.
> 
> ============================================
> m>ao AT hafnasandur ~
> $ id -un
> james
> ============================================


I've just posted about the same issue :) You are missing the entry for 
james in the /etc/passwd file. Update the passwd database with mkpasswd 
and you should be fine.



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