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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:04:04 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.19-1 and up: Garbage printed in ls output if the user entry is missing from /etc/passwd
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:16:30PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've just completed a fresh installation of Cygwin on Win2k Pro / SP3. I 
>installed Cygwin as Administrator but then created an user called ptsekov. 
>It happened that I forgot to update the password database after I created 
>the new user. So I've logged in as ptsekov and the first thing I saw was 
>the strange prompt - with the latests snapshot version of Cygwin 
>(20030130) it looks like this for me:
>
><@mordor
>
>With the released 1.3.19-1 version it was a little bit different.
>
>Then I issued 'ls -l' on a directory which contained files with owner 
>'ptsekov'. The output contained garbage in the owner field of the 'ls' 
>output.
>
>Now I know that it is not good if the user's entry is missing from the 
>passwd database and I've corrected this, but I thought I'd post so that
>this could be fixed. It seems like there is some variable 
>left uninitialized if the passwd entry is missing.

I think I messed this up.  I'll fix it.

Thanks for the heads up.

cgf

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